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Hot Creek Geologic Site Trail

Boiling Water, Fumaroles, and Geyser Eruptions

Interpretive Trail on Hot Creek in Inyo NF, Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes, CA

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Length

1,208ft

Trail Number

#2806 (888ft)

Unknown (320ft)

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Hot Creek is a place to marvel at geology in action. Boiling water bubbling up from the creek bed, fumaroles and periodic geyser eruptions at Hot Creek attest to the chamber of hot magma which lies about three miles below the surface of the earth in this area.

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Hot Creek, starting as Mammoth Creek, is a stream in Mono County of eastern California, in the Western United States. It is within the Inyo National Forest.

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Hot Creek Hot Springs

Hot Spring in Inyo NF, Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes, CA

Creek in Inyo NF, Sierra Nevada in Mammoth Lakes, CA

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Ecology

Great Basin Shrub Steppe

Central Basin and Range

Sierra Nevada-Influenced Semiarid Hills and Basins