{"id":3577,"date":"2026-02-07T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:14:30","slug":"refuge-hot-springs-sheldon-national-wildlife-refuge-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"Refuge Hot Springs &#8211; Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheldon NWR sits on the Nevada side of the OR-NV border and is accessed by OR and NV Hwy 140.\u00a0 The Reserve is vast and home to antelope, big horn sheep, elk, deer, mountain lion, wild horses and burros that were set loose years ago.\u00a0 The Refuge Hot Springs was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930&#8217;s by building a wall on the low side of the hot spring runoff.\u00a0 The CCC built a shower house that is free and open to the public, fed by the hot spring water.\u00a0 There is a great free campground surrounding the pool.\u00a0 [All photos <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\" alt=\"copyright symbol\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a> Max Vollmer, Click on any image to enlarge]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3578\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Refuge-Hot-Springs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3578\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Refuge-Hot-Springs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refuge Hot Springs pool and shower room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The road to the hot springs passes an active opal mine which offers tours in season.\u00a0 There is also an old homestead with a stone barn and a corral with a fence woven with willow branches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3579\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Corral-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3579\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Corral-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stone barn and corral.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheldon NWR sits on the Nevada side of the OR-NV border and is accessed by OR and NV Hwy 140.\u00a0 The Reserve is vast and home to antelope, big horn sheep, elk, deer, mountain lion, wild horses and burros that were set loose years ago.\u00a0 The Refuge Hot Springs was developed by the Civilian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Refuge Hot Springs &#8211; Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}