Hot Spring

Diana's Punchbowl

Nye County, NV

Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.

A geothermal crater where superheated water has dissolved through the desert floor, creating a boiling pool rimmed in yellow sulfur. Too hot to enter — purely a geological spectacle near Spencer Hot Springs.

Facts

RegionNye County, NV
Coordinates (approx.)39.0302, -116.6651
Temp200F+ viewing only
TypeBoiling crater
AccessDirt road
FeeFree (BLM)
CountyNye County (Monitor Valley)
WarningBoiling crater—view only; fatal risk if entered

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