Buhl Creek Hot Springs

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49.96840, -115.94590

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A primitive, undeveloped hot spring at the confluence of buhl creek and skookumchuck creek, reached via roughly 44 km of the Skookumchuck Forest Service Road. It's a wayfinding landmark for anglers running the FSR toward the Skookumchuck's upper canyon water, not a fishing spot itself.

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Location: rock-lined creekside pools right at the Buhl/Skookumchuck confluence, about 44 km up the Skookumchuck Forest Service Road from the highway; no bridge crosses the creek, so reaching the pools means viewing from the bank or wading across.

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Season: spring runoff usually floods the pools, so they're only reliably hot from late summer into early fall — the same window skookumchuck creek itself fishes best.

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Use it for: a fixed, well-documented point to navigate by on the FSR; it also marks roughly where the Region 4 synopsis draws its Sept 1–Oct 31 no-fishing boundary on the Skookumchuck mainstem down to the Buhl Creek confluence.

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buhl creek — confluence creek and namesake.

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skookumchuck creek — parent water; the FSR is its main upper-canyon access route.