Green Spring
Green Spring is in Utah's low desert corner, Washington County, two miles or so from the city of Washington. The water is warm and mild, nowhere near hot. Ownership and permission to use it are not on file, and no photo has been added yet. It appears on the USGS thermal list.
Roadside, about forty feet from the road. At under three thousand feet this is desert-floor country, and the climate shows it: around eight inches of rain a year and almost no snow. Red Cliffs Campground is about nine miles away. The water carries a moderate load of dissolved minerals.
Winter is the listed season, and here that means mild days instead of snow. Access is unrecorded. The chemistry was sampled in 2003, which is newer than most of the Utah readings. Nothing on file about fees.
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 Green 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 northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 115 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 36% 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.
The water at Green Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.3) with 1490 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration), and sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
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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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