Pugsley
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Pugsley, a one-word name on the USGS list, is a warm spring in Cassia County some thirteen miles from Burley. The water is lukewarm. It was sampled in June 1966 and that is the last measurement on file. Nobody has recorded the land status.
The closest road is nearly a mile away, unnamed in the record, so count on a walk of close to a mile each way across ground nobody has described on file. Elevation runs near 5,800 feet. Winters are moderate in snow by mountain standards, roughly two and a half feet, and the year is dry.
Best months on record are January, December, February. A mile on foot through snow is no small thing, so match the season to the weather. Clear Creek Campground is the camping on file, a little over nine miles away. The temperature reading is from the 1960s. Access is unknown; check it.
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 Pugsley.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 78 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 88% 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 Pugsley is neutral (pH 7.2) with 314 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Clear Creek Campground is a non-fee campground and picnic area composed of 12 individual units and reservations are not required. This area is accessible for a season that varies usually between June through October. Campground amenities include toilets and the campground is well suited for tent and RV camping. Sites are handicapped accessible. Bull Flat (#001) and Lake Fork (#004) trails are popular with horseback riders, and hikers.
Pugsley sits at 5,790 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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