Becks Hot 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.
Becks Hot Spring surfaces a few feet from Beck Street Frontage Road, two miles from North Salt Lake in Davis County. The water is hot, well past soaking temperature at the source. A 1967 analysis found it heavily mineralized, very salty. Neither ownership nor access is on file; this is a roadside thermal point beside a frontage road.
Roadside in the truest sense, a handful of steps from the frontage road. Elevation runs above four thousand feet, with more than three feet of snow most winters and moderate precipitation. Mueller Park Group Picnic is the nearest listed site, under six miles. No land manager is on file. USGS tracks the spring.
Winter takes the best-months slot. The water can burn; at the measured temperature it is too hot for bare skin without cooling. The only chemistry is from 1967, nearly sixty years old. It shows water thick with dissolved salts. Access and ownership are not listed, so look into both before stopping. No fee recorded.
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 Becks Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 253 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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 59% 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 Becks Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.4) with 15500 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief), and sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration).
Overview Mueller Park Group Picnic Area is located just 5 miles from Bountiful, Utah, at an elevation of 5,400 feet. Visitors enjoy relaxing in the shade along Mill Creek and exploring local trails.Recreation Mueller Canyon offers excellent trail opportunities. Hiking, mountain biking, dirt biking and horseback riding are allowed here. Mueller Park Trail is 13 miles long, gradually climbing into the Wasatch foothills through dense forests before passing Elephant Rock and ending at Rudy's Flat...
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