VULCAN HOT SPRINGS, IDAHO
Vulcan Hot Springs is located in the
DIRECTIONS: First, purchase a map of the Boise National
Forest from any ranger station and then from Cascade follow Forest Service Road
22 to FSR 474 and travel south about 7 miles (a mile past Stolle
Meadows) to the Vulcan Hot Springs' (unofficial) camping area. Park your car
and hike about 1 mile west to the
SITE REVIEW:
Subject: Vulcan H.S.
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002
From: David Gray <dmg@moscow.com>
Vulcan is alive and well as of last week. I am starting my own hotspring website and plan to include info and pics on Vulcan very soon. I'd to link your page and would
appreciate same. have a good one!
http://users.potlatch.com/dmg/hotspring.htm
Subject: Vulcan and other nearby
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999
From: Kris Murray (murphtall@mindspring.com)
Here are my reviews of those
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Vulcan: Vulcan is down the road from Molly's; and I thought Vulcan rocked. The hike in was across a beautiful field with a stream; and we saw two elk (or moose) on the hike up. One of them got a little too close for comfort. I believe he was the moose (maybe I will dig up pix of them too). Anyways when we got to the springs, two naked Germans greeted us, much to our delight as we love naked company. We went up to the top of the springs where the kids could boil eggs and it was HOT! You can't touch that. And there's just a huge amount of water that ours out of that one. WE soaked for about an hour or two whilst chatting with our European buddies before we left. I don't believe we ever got their names.... |
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Sixteen Mile: This is the next one, although it's not on the same road. Its kinda on the way to Krigbaum from Vulcan, at least by the way that we drove. We had broken my odometer and speedometer earlier in the trip so we had difficulties in finding this one but when we did, we fell in love. My ol' lady swears the she'll marry me in this one. Basically you travel 1.5 miles past the Poverty Flats Campground and start looking for a trail over the side of the road. Trust me its there. Over the edge are two pools; but only one was soakable in '98. This one was made of a steel pole stuck into the source which spouted into what would have been the river had some crafty soaker not built a concrete and rock pool in which to trap the lovely hot water. We sat all day and saw not a single soul on the river that day. The water is a bit hot but you can let river water in thru some hole in the tub which you can find if you look around on the bottom. The pool is around belly deep sitting on your rear. It is great because after a few hours it feels as if you are floating down river because you gotta soak your hands in the moving river water seeings as how hot the water and the climate was. This one is a must see. |
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Krigbaum: This was the last undeveloped spring that we saw. There were three others that we stopped by that had chlorinated water and cafes, but this one was a doozie. The water wasn't too hot and halfway through the day a family stopped by so we had to quickly dress; but after that we met some really nice folks camping near by and then towards midnight during a lightning storm in the distance, a highschool couple came and soaked with us. I think they were hoping to be alone as they didn't strip; but you could see that the gal wanted to and the male was being...male, we were buck-naked and loving it, so we didn't say a word we just soaked and watched the light show. This one is a an easy hike. |
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997
From: Deborah (talka@micron.net)
This springs is beautiful, but the soaking pools are not warm enough to enjoy during the winter. However, there are small pools (about 1 or 2 feet in diameter) which are hot enough to boil an egg. Local kids bring eggs along in a nylon stocking to drop down into the hole. This is more a "looking at" spot than a soaking spot, although we've done both.
The main drawback of this springs, especially to naturists, are almost
invisible tiny red mites which make very visible, incredibly itchy welts.
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