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Piton Falls Warm Spring, St. Lucia, West Indies
Piton Falls Warm Spring
Leonard's Hot Spring, CA
Leonard's Hot Spring
40.6 N 120.088 W 144 degrees F USGS map: Cedarville (15 min)
Buckeye Hot Spring, CA
Buckeye Hot Spring
38.237 N 119.326 W 140 degrees F USGS map: Matterhorn Peak (15 min)
Travertine Hot Springs, CA
Travertine Hot Springs
38.245 N 119.205 W 180 degrees F USGS map: Bodie (15 min)
Keough Hot Ditch, CA
Keough Hot Ditch
37.253 N 118.373 W 124 degrees F USGS map: Bishop (15 min)
McCredie Hot Spring, OR
McCredie Hot Spring
43.708 N 122.288 W 163 degrees F USGS map: Oakridge (15 min)
Sunbeam Hot Spring, ID
Sunbeam Hot Spring
44.268 N 114.748 W 169 degrees F USGS map: Sunbeam (7.5 min)
A complete listing of
Hot Springs in the U.S. from the
National Geophysical Data Center .
A Street Atlas USA 3.0 map file (28K), showing the
locations of many hot springs in the West. This is only useful
to those people who have the
Street Atlas USA 3.0
CD, but if you do have the CD, it's great to actually see all the
springs, and be able to zoom in and out, showing all the nearby
roads, etc., courtesy of Richard Cochran
A great page on
New Mexico hot springs from the
SERS program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
These Idaho gems from George Cole:
Kern Hot Spring, courtesy of Robert Miller.
Hot Springs and Wells in Long Valley Caldera
from the U.S.G.S Volcano Hazards Program
Several hot springs in the Mammoth Lakes, CA area.
Goldmyer Hot Springs is owned and operated by a Washington State nonprofit corporation.
Mono Hot Springs, from 'Irving'.
Got a spare mil? Ponce de Leon Hot Springs is for sale.
A map and some pictures of Colorado hot springs, from the Colorado Water Knowledge pages at Colorado State University.
We can thank Steve Karl for these:
Jef Poskanzer describes
several hot springs in California.
Olympic Hot Springs, WA,
and directions to Sykes Hot Springs in Big Sur, courtesy of the Naturist Reference Pages
Conundrum Hot Springs, CO and Deep Creek Hot Springs, CA from the rec.nude FAQ.
Friends of Bagby Hot Springs
Bob Salpas enlightens us about
Meadow Hot Springs, and
more info from rec.nude
Carl Mooncrow Evans provides a wealth of info:
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Olympic National Park hot springs.
An overview of some hot springs in the Sun Valley area
An extremely brief description of the geology of hot springs.
Searching out that hidden hot spring may require a little research.
Jayson Loam's guides are a great place to start.
We've got several dog-eared older editions around.
Another favorite is the Hiker's Guide to Hot Springs in the Pacific Northwest by
Evie Litton. The U.S. Geological Survey should still have available
the original Waring report (Professional Paper 492). And here's a Guide to Japanese Hot Springs.
You might want to search for rec.nude postings containing those wonderful words: "hot springs"
Some photos:
Raw data:
Wyoming Selected Thermal Spring Temperatures
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