Some mining occurs. Subsistence activities and public assistance supplement income. The Hot Springs road connects to the Steese Highway and on to Fairbanks. A State-owned 3,600' lighted gravel airstrip is available. The area has a continental subarctic climate, characterized by seasonal extremes in temperature.
Winters are long and harsh, summers warm and short.
Rainfall averages 6.5 inches, snowfall 43.4 inches. Summer temperatures range from 65 to 72, winter temperatures can range from -71 to 0. Facilities Residents haul water from a nearby spring and use outhouses or honeybuckets. Households are not plumbed. Residents haul refuse to the unpermitted landfill at Central.