Virgin Valley Warm Springs
- Location
- Nevada, United States
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Virgin Valley Warm Springs is situated in Nevada's Humboldt County, in the remote northwest corner of a state where vast distances separate one geothermal site from the next. Close to the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, this resort-style facility occupies a landscape of rolling sagebrush hills and dry creek beds that characterize the northern Nevada high desert.
The spring flows at 35 °C with a notably alkaline pH of 8, and its sodium-chloride composition gives the water a soft, mildly saline character. The higher pH lends a silky quality to the water that bathers often appreciate, a property common to alkaline mineral springs. The remoteness of Virgin Valley — far from major travel corridors — ensures a level of quiet and solitude that is the defining feature of a visit here, as much as the warm, mineral-rich water itself.