South Tule 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.
South Tule Spring is out on open BLM ground in Millard County's west desert, more than fifty miles from Delta. Access is listed as open. Warmth without soaking heat is what you get. Nobody has run a chemistry sample on it.
Tule Spring Road is the road on record, and from it the spring is a walk of close to a mile. The Fillmore Field Office of the BLM manages the ground, flagged public. Elevation is around 4,400 feet in very dry country: seven inches of rain a year and only light snow. No campground is on file.
Winter months lead the record, and in this desert that is the cool, reasonable season for a mile on foot. No fee is listed. No camping is listed either, and Delta is a long drive. Temperature is on record; chemistry is not. The open access status is the firm fact here.
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 South Tule Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 4 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 4% 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.