Medicine (Sun River) Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Medicine Springs, filed as Medicine (Sun River) Springs and carrying the same name on OpenStreetMap, is a warm spring in Teton County, Montana. Choteau is the nearest town and it is some thirty-four miles away. The water is warm, short of the range where most people call a spring soakable. Who owns it and what access is like are both missing from the record, and no chemistry exists.
A tenth of a mile separates the spring from an unnamed road. The ground is at middle elevation. This part of Teton County gets heavy snow, close to nine feet in a winter, and precipitation is fairly high. Home Gulch Campground is about six miles off. No trail or land unit is recorded.
Winter is flagged as the season in the record, and the snow here is deep enough that you should plan around it. Home Gulch Campground is the closest place to camp that the record knows of. No fee appears. With no access status and no owner on file, check the land before you walk in. There is no dated water sample.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 405 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 4% 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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15 campsites along the North Fork of the Sun River. Good fishing for rainbow and westslope cutthroat trout. Hiking nearby on the Mortimer Gulch National Recreation Trail. Motorized and non-motorized boat access at the boat launch.Bears may frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers and remove all food from area after eating. Mandatory food storage is required.
Medicine (Sun River) Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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