Deseret Livestock South Spring
One of a pair of similarly named springs on BLM ground in Tooele County, Deseret Livestock South Spring is marked open on the record and sits fourteen miles from Grantsville. The water is warm, low seventies, which rules out a proper soak for most people. No chemistry was sampled.
Roadside, under fifty yards from the pavement, on land run by the BLM Salt Lake Field Office. Mid-elevation valley, with a dryish climate and two feet or so of snow in winter. Loop Campground is the closest on file, eight and a half miles or thereabouts. The designation is plain public land.
Listed best months are December through February. No fee appears. Open BLM land, no permission needed beyond the usual rules. The temperature came from a survey, so do not count on it being warm enough. Grantsville is where you would stock up. Check the neighboring South Springs entry too, since the two are easy to confuse.
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 Deseret Livestock South 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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 107 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 64% 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.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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Overview Loop Campground is located southwest of Grantsville, Utah, in South Willow Canyon at an elevation of 7,400 feet. It’s located in the Stansbury Range where visitors enjoy exploring local trails. Recreation The multi-use Stansbury Front Trail and Medina Flat Trail begin across the road from the entrance, offering access to the rugged Deseret Peak Wilderness. Willow Creek offers rainbow and brown trout fishing. Facilities This campground has 9 single sites and 1 double site and has vaul...
Deseret Livestock South Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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