Carter Bridge Warm Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Carter Bridge Warm Springs is four miles from Livingston in Park County, Montana. The water is on the warm side of tepid, the kind of temperature that feels pleasant in July. No chemistry has been recorded, and the file is blank on ownership and on visiting rights. No USGS site number exists for it either, so nobody has measured flow.
About a thousand feet from the road, on foot; it is unnamed in the record. This is valley country at mid elevation; winters here bring something like seven feet of snow, with moderate precipitation across the year. Trail Creek Cabin sits thirteen miles off and is the camping listed; no land unit is named.
Winter, says the record. Given that the water is merely warm, a cold-day visit makes sense for the walk and little else. Treat the ground as possibly private. The short walk from the road is all the access information we have. A fee, if there is one, went unrecorded.
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 Carter Bridge Warm Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 633 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 14% 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.
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