Seep
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
The record calls this one Seep, nothing more, a warm spring a few miles outside Clifton in Greenlee County. It is warm, close to a pleasant soaking temperature. The interesting thing is the water itself: a 1978 sample showed dissolved solids near fourteen thousand milligrams a liter, which is very salty water. Ownership and public access are both blank on file.
Greenlee County, about 3,500 feet up, and the road you would park on is 260 feet away, unnamed in the record. Mild weather. Eleven inches of rain in a year and enough snow to dust the ground in winter. Nobody wrote down a land manager, so who owns this is an open question. Owl Creek Campground is seven and a half miles off.
Winter months are listed as best. Roadside, so no real walk. The salinity figure is from 1978 and the chemistry, like the temperature, could be different now. With access unrecorded and no owner named, ask in Clifton before treating it as open.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Seep.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 225 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 45% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Seep contains 13900 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration), and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
Located in the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area in Arizona, Owl Creek Campground has seven campsites, picnic tables, grills, ramadas, trash receptacles, and restroom facilities available to make your stay more enjoyable. There is no potable water available at the campground. Three of the campsites are pull-through sites, and four are pull-in sites, making the campground suitable for trailers and RVS. The campground is a stop on the Black Hills Back Country Byway, and it is also j...
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