Dexter Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Dexter Spring, a named spring thirteen miles out of Alamosa East in Alamosa County, Colorado, sits at around 7,500 feet. The USGS logged 68 degrees, a cool reading, and took a chemistry sample in 1984. Ownership and access are blank. It is a water record more than a soaking spot, and the name is all the identity it has.
X Road comes within a fifth of a mile; the record calls it a short walk. High, dry climate: ten inches of precipitation, a little over two feet of snow, mean temperature around 45. The record lists no campground nearby. No land unit is attached, and the road name is the only local detail.
The record favors winter, though at that temperature the water is a curiosity in any season. No fee recorded. Access is unrecorded, so ask before leaving X Road. The chemistry dates to a 1984 sample, alkaline, iron among the minerals listed. Camping would mean a drive, since nothing is on record close by.
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 Dexter Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 39 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 18% 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 Dexter Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.2).
Dexter Spring sits at 7,526 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 30% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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