These Healing Hot Springs In Nevada Have A Truly Fascinating History

How many natural hot springs in Nevada are there?  

If someone asked you which state has the most hot springs, what would you guess? Something like Wyoming, Colorado, or maybe Alaska is likely to come up, but none of these are actually correct. Nope – our beautiful state of Nevada is actually the hot spring capital of the United States; it’s home to more than 300 amazing hot springs. Some of them are too hot or otherwise dangerous to soak in or even really touch with bare hands or feet, but plenty more are perfect for a good, long, healing soak. Many of them are left as-is, wild and free; many others, though, have had resorts and/or getaways built up around them. Our favorite ones happen to be the wild, undeveloped ones; some of the best include Kyle Hot Springs, near Mill City, Gold Strike Hot Springs, just outside of Vegas, and Spencer Hot Springs, in the Smoky Valley. Interested in more? You might want to take this awesome hot springs road trip we put together!  

 What is winter in Nevada like?  

Nevada can have some pretty epic winters sometimes, but overall, winters here happen to be pretty mild – if not even comfortable, some years. The national average for annual snowfall is 28 inches, and Nevada’s annual snowfall is about 22 inches, so it gets less snow than most states. The average low temperature in Nevada during the month of January is around 27 degrees, so just a few degrees below freezing. It’s not uncommon to have overnight freezes during the winter months, though the freezes don’t typically last for a terribly long time. Blizzards and catastrophic snowstorms are very uncommon, though there have been freak winter storm events in the past. Nevada is a great state to run away to during winter when most of the other states are bitterly cold and covered in feet upon feet of snow.