Soldier Meadows hot spring system
- Location
- Nevada, United States
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Soldier Meadows Hot Spring System is a remarkable natural geothermal complex in the remote Black Rock Desert region of northwestern Nevada, where multiple bicarbonate-rich thermal spring vents sustain a lush and ecologically significant riparian oasis in the high desert, supporting a warm-water habitat for the rare Soldier Meadows pupfish — a relic species from when Pleistocene lakes covered the Great Basin. The hot spring system, on the historic Applegate-Lassen emigrant trail used by California-bound settlers in the 1840s, represents both ecological and historical significance in the vast Black Rock wilderness. The extraordinary contrast between the intensely hot springs and the surrounding arid desert, the pupfish's survival against all odds, and the remote frontier landscape make Soldier Meadows one of Nevada's most ecologically precious and atmospherically powerful geothermal sites.