Morgans Warm 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.
Morgans Warm Spring is a warm spring in Tooele County, eleven or twelve miles from the town of Tooele. The water is warm, a few degrees under body heat. Nobody is recorded as owner and access is blank on file. Dissolved minerals are moderate and the pH leans alkaline. There is no photo.
A walk of about 460 feet from the nearest road, which the listing does not name. Elevation is about five thousand feet. A winter drops a bit over three feet of snow; precipitation is moderate. Who manages the land is blank.
The cold months are the ones flagged. The Boy Scout campground is about eleven miles away. Access is unrecorded. Chemistry dates to 1964, so the temperature on file is sixty-odd years old and may not match what comes out today.
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 Morgans Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 29 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 86% 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 Morgans Warm Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.4) with 1040 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief), chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits), and total dissolved solids (higher mineral concentration for therapeutic soaking).
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Overview Boy Scout Campground is located southwest of Grantsville, Utah, in South Willow Canyon at an elevation of 6,320 feet. 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 primitive campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 35 people, 5 single family...
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