Buckeye Hot Springs

Buckeye Hot Springs rises from a hillside above Buckeye Creek west of Bridgeport in Mono County, California. The springs are on the Bridgeport Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, not on BLM land. The Forest Service describes the water as emerging above the creek under a rock overhang, with a second, smaller spring upstream, and the flow runs down the bank into small rock pools at the creek's edge.

From U.S. Highway 395 in Bridgeport, Twin Lakes Road runs about 7 miles southwest, and Buckeye Road continues north toward Buckeye Campground. The springs lie just east of the campground, and a short, steep path leads from the parking area down to the creek. No fee is listed. In winter, the Bridgeport Winter Trail System, a 4.25-mile groomed trail that starts 7 miles up Twin Lakes Road, reaches the Buckeye Hot Springs day-use area. Mono County reports that Buckeye Road is closed to wheeled vehicles when the trail is groomed and that overnight parking and camping are not allowed in the hot springs parking area.

In 2020 Mono County, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, and the nonprofit Mammoth Lakes Recreation began a project to merge user-made paths into one trail, remove illegal parking, build a parking area of about 0.4 acre, and add a vault toilet. The winter trail began as a pilot project with volunteers and the Forest Service in 2022. Buckeye Campground has 68 sites at about 7,000 feet and is usually open from mid-May to mid-September. Travertine Hot Springs, on BLM land near Bridgeport, is about 6.5 miles east in a straight line.