Battle Mountain Hot Springs
- Location
- Battle Mountain, Nevada, United States
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Battle Mountain Hot Springs are located in Battle Mountain, Nevada, a remote Great Basin town on the Humboldt River corridor in Lander County, historically an important stop on the transcontinental railroad and Nevada's oldest north-south highway, serving as a service center for the surrounding ranching and mining communities in one of the most sparsely populated stretches of the American West. The Great Basin's extraordinary geological diversity, with its parallel fault-block mountain ranges separated by broad alluvial valleys, produces numerous geothermal anomalies across this tectonically active region, and Battle Mountain's springs draw on this deep heat from the Basin and Range extension that has stretched and thinned the Earth's crust across Nevada. The hot springs here offer mineral bathing in a setting of genuine Great Basin remoteness, where the vast skies, silver-grey sagebrush plains, and distant mountain ranges create an atmosphere of austere western grandeur rarely disturbed by tourist infrastructure.