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Desert Rivers - Amargosa Desert:
Amargosa River
Tecopa Hot Springs
This small community in eastern Inyo County is best known for its hot springs. Residents of a small
Indian village, called Yaga, made regular use of the natural hot springs. In 1829 the explorer Antonio Armijo stopped
here on his inauguration trip of the
Spanish Trail.
Captain John Fremont
and
Kit Carson
probably stopped here in 1844.
Commercial hot springs are available for public use for a fee. For decades, Inyo County operated a free hot
spring facility in the Tecopa area; this site is now operated by a private concessionaire, and a fee is charged.
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