Berry 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.
Berry Springs sits on the outskirts of Hurricane in Washington County, a couple of miles from town and a few steps off West State Street. The water is tepid, the kind you would wade in on a hot afternoon, and the sample on file from 2002 shows a fair load of dissolved minerals, sulfate and chloride among them. Ownership is not recorded.
Low desert by Utah standards, under three thousand feet, with a dry climate and winters that see a little snow without piling it up. The spring is roadside, well under a hundred yards from pavement. Red Cliffs Campground, four miles away, is the place to stay close. No land manager is listed.
The record favors the three winter months. Check access before you go; the record says nothing about visitors being allowed, and private ground is a real possibility. The water chemistry dates from more than two decades ago. Red Cliffs is the camping option. Hurricane is close enough for supplies.
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 Berry Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 81 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 43% 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 Berry Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.3) with 1360 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 sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
Overview Red Cliffs Recreation Area includes a campground, day use areas, a non-motorized trail system, and interpreted public use sites. Dinosaurs left their footprints, now visible in the sandstone. Ancestral Puebloans lived here in the 10th century, growing corn, beans, and squash along Quail and Leeds Creek. Mid-19th century pioneers farmed here, supplying the area’s silver miners with food. Located within the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, the Recreation Area is managed to cons...
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