Big Maple 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.
Big Maple Spring is a tepid spring on BLM land in Beaver County, Utah, roughly fifteen miles out from the town of Beaver. The water comes up cooler than a bath, so think of it as a place to see. Public access is open. Nothing on file mentions a built pool or any development, and there is no image of it yet.
The spring sits at about 6,700 feet within the Cedar City Field Office area, high country by Utah standards. Getting there means leaving the car and walking around a third of a mile. Snow piles up in winter, close to four feet in an average year. The rest of the year runs dry.
The listing favors December through February, though that much snowfall makes a winter walk its own question. Hanging Rock Campground is a little over five miles away. No fee is recorded. The temperature was taken in a 1963 survey, so treat it as a rough guide and check conditions before you drive out.
The USGS logged this as a thermal site and sampled the water in August of 1963. Nothing else about its past is on file.
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 Big Maple Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 300 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 42% 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 Big Maple Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.2) with 268 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Overview Hanging Rock Campground is located just off of Highway 21 between the towns of Beaver and Minerville, UT. The campground has six campsites all located alongside the scenic Beaver River. Along with the scenery that the river provides, it also offers what many consider to be the best fising in Beaver County. Recreation The Beaver River provides opportunity for year-round fishing. The Paiute ATV Trail and Beaver Bench Mountain Bike Trail System are located just down the road in Beaver,...
Big Maple Spring sits at 6,700 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 27% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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