**As with all my hot spring reviews, I’m starting this out with a plea/admonition: I get a lot of guff from hot springs regulars for my «irresponsible» compulsion to share hot springs info with the world — I guess the old-timers are afraid that the more people know about these places, the worse condition they will end up in. I steadfastly maintain that sharing is caring, and that to hoard these locations is greedy and selfish… so I’m sharing this info here with the request that, if you visit these springs, PLEASE be respectful and PACKOUTYOURTRASH!!! I’ve see so many hot springs strewn with gross litter(including human and pet waste) that it really turns my stomach.** Spectacularly gorgeous, ultra remote little warm spring, sort of near the ghost town of Bodie, about 37 miles outside Hawthorne, NV in the eastern Sierra. I used the directions at this site to find it: . The roads in are pretty burly, so even with 4WD my sis and I ended up parking and hiking down the last 3 miles into the canyon. If you have a Jeep or other hardcore rig with a short wheel base, you might could make it all the way down. Otherwise, just hike — it’s easy. Pass the old mine and the rusted out schoolbus, then follow the river to the left a ways, and the spring is off to the left. I’m docking a star because the water wasn’t warm enough to soak in at the time of my visit, in late February. The source water was piping hot, but by the time it filled the pool(which is small and made of stone — would fit maybe 5 people max) it wasn’t warm enough to soak in comfortably. This is probably an amazing place in summertime — I’ll have to come back. The area is probably AMAZINGLY gorgeous then!
