Midway Hot Springs
This Midway Hot Springs record sits about a mile from the town of Midway in Wasatch County. The water temperature on file is right at body-warm soaking heat. The linked Wikipedia article describes the Homestead Caldera, called The Crater locally, a geothermal spring enclosed by a rock dome in Midway. Ownership is not stated on the record.
A hundred feet from a road, name unrecorded, at a bit over 5,700 feet. Winters bring well over eight feet of snow, and precipitation through the year is high for the state. No land manager appears on file.
Winter months are listed. Albion Basin campground is a little over seven miles away. No water chemistry has been sampled at this point, so mineral content is unknown. Access is unrecorded. If this is the Crater, expect a spring inside a rock dome; the record does not confirm the match, so check before assuming you can walk in.
Wikipedia's entry attached to this record is for the Homestead Caldera, known locally as The Crater, a natural geothermal hot spring surrounded by a rock dome in Midway, Utah. The record itself only names the point Midway Hot Springs and gives a USGS site number, so the connection rests on location.
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 Midway Hot 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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 134 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 45% 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 Albion Basin Campground, just 15 miles from Sandy, Utah, is set among shady white pines and aspens in its beautiful namesake basin in Little Cottonwood Canyon at an elevation of 9,500 feet. Recreation Hiking and mountain biking are very popular activities. Hikers enjoy the path to Cecret Lake, which begins at the campground, as well as the Catherine Pass/Sunset Peak Trail just down the road. Mountain bikers often ride the Albion Basin Road and the trail to Germania Pass. Other trail...
Midway Hot Springs sits at 5,763 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 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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