Grape Creek Warm Spring

Documentation record: Grape Creek Warm Spring has no documented pool and no verified public access information. This page records what the official geothermal registries say about the spring, and nothing beyond it.

Grape Creek Warm Spring appears in the federal thermal springs list at 72 °F, on Grape Creek in Cassia County, on the Jim Sage Canyon quadrangle east of Almo. The U.S. Geological Survey’s GEOTHERM file carries the same spring in T15S R25E Sec 24 at 22 °C, which rounds to the same 72 °F. Two registries, one spring, one point, agreeing on the temperature. That agreement is the record: the state geothermal dataset does not carry Grape Creek at all, and no other source consulted adds a fact to the two rows.

Read this page as a documentation record for a real, inventoried spring in high desert ranch country, not as a destination guide. No pool, development, visit, or public access is documented anywhere for Grape Creek Warm Spring, and no agency manages it as a recreation site. At 72 °F it is one of the coolest entries in the Idaho inventories, a warm spring by the surveyors’ definition rather than a bather’s, and this listing is deliberately as short as the record is.

Soak Stats

Place Information

Location and Access

The spring’s inventory point sits on Grape Creek where the creek comes off the Jim Sage Mountains side of the valley and runs east toward the Raft River, about five miles east-southeast of Almo and a little over 30 miles south of Burley in a straight line. Grape Creek itself is a mapped Cassia County watercourse in the national place-name record, and the spring takes its name from the creek. It is settled, working country, ranches and grazing allotments on the valley floor, not a recreation area, and no road or trail to the spring is published anywhere.

Beyond that, this listing deliberately does not go. No published route to the spring exists, no source describes a visit, and ownership of the section the spring rises in is not confirmed in any source consulted. The coordinates are public record in the registries linked above, but a set of coordinates is not an invitation, and on land of unconfirmed ownership it is not permission. Anyone with a genuine reason to visit should establish land ownership and, if the land is private, get the landowner’s permission first.

Is There a Soak Here?

The honest answer is that no source describes one, and the temperature argues against expecting one. At 72 °F the source water is only a few degrees above a cold creek on a summer day, closer to a swimming hole’s temperature than a hot tub’s, and nothing in any source suggests it was ever dammed, tubbed, or bathed in.

No soaking guide covers this spring, no trip report or photograph of a visit exists in any source consulted, and the aggregator pages that carry its name repeat the registry row and nothing more. Both registry rows descend from the geothermal survey era of the 1970s and early 1980s, and no later survey, guide, or dataset consulted adds a newer observation of the spring. If a landowner confirmation, a county record, or a credible field report ever surfaces, this page will be updated.

History

There is no settler story to tell here, and this listing does not invent one. Grape Creek Warm Spring enters the written record through the geothermal surveys and never leaves them: the federal list carries it at 72 °F on the Jim Sage Canyon quadrangle, and GEOTHERM holds it as record 0025232, a few records away from Durfee Spring (record 0025230) in its county index, the developed Almo soak a short distance west.

The Grape Creek name itself belongs to the place first, a creek draining the Jim Sage country down to the Raft River, the way the creek names across this valley belong to the land before they belong to any spring. Who applied it, and whether the spring was ever used by the people who lived beside it, is not verified in any source consulted. The two registry rows are the whole file.

Nearby Hot Springs

The nearest full listing in the same county is Marsh Gully Hot Springs, another Cassia County documentation record in the Albion Basin about 25 miles north, hotter water at 106 °F and the same honest profile: registries only, no documented visit. The nearest actual soak is Durfee Hot Springs at Almo, a developed spring with real pools and public hours about four miles west of the Grape Creek country; it has no listing on this site yet, and none of its facts belong to this record. More South-Central Idaho hot springs →