Hot Springs
104 mi from Las Vegas · ~3.0 hr drive
Hot Springs is a hot spring catalogued in Nevada by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System — about 104 miles from Las Vegas, NV, inside Death Valley National Park. Coordinates and the closest documented metro are listed below; for current access and soaking rules, check with the relevant land manager before visiting.
Safety & access
This feature is inside Death Valley National Park and is federally protected. Stay on designated boardwalks and trails — leaving them damages fragile thermal-features and is illegal. Soaking is prohibited in most NPS thermal areas.
Before you go: check current conditions and access rules with the relevant land manager — National Park Service unit, U.S. Forest Service ranger district, Bureau of Land Management field office, state-park department, or the property owner if it's private. Wild thermal water can be unsafe to enter without a thermometer; surface temperatures can vary dramatically from the deeper pool. When in doubt, don't soak.
- State
- Nevada
- Nearest city
- Las Vegas, NV · 104 mi · ~3.0 hr drive
- Type
- Hot spring
- Coordinates
- 36.9763°, -116.7223°
- Park
- Death Valley National Park (NP)
- County
- Nye
- GNIS ID
- 857464
About Death Valley National Park
Hot Springs is inside Death Valley National Park, a U.S. National Park managed by the National Park Service. Conditions, road status, trail closures, boardwalk routing, and reservation requirements are published directly on the park's NPS page — check it before driving in, especially in winter.
Entrance fee: $30 per vehicle. Per vehicle, valid 7 days. An America the Beautiful annual pass ($80) covers entrance to all NPS units and is worth it after ~3 park visits per year.
Park homepage: https://www.nps.gov/deva/
Visiting Hot Springs
The exact location is at 36.9763°, -116.7223° — open in Google Maps for driving directions from your location.
If you've visited Hot Springs and have current notes (parking, access, soaking rules, fees, ownership), tell us at /contact — we update pages as we learn more.
Other hot springs within 30 miles
Sources
Location data for Hot Springs comes from the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (public domain), feature class "Spring". We filter the GNIS Spring catalog to thermal features by name pattern (hot spring, warm spring, geyser, boiling spring, thermal). The GNIS records the geographic feature itself; access rules, ownership, and current conditions come from the relevant land manager. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page or contact us.