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.
Tule Spring is a warm BLM spring far out in Millard County's west desert, about fifty miles from Delta, the nearest town of any size. The water is warm enough to notice and too cool to count as a hot soak, comfortable on a cool morning. Public access is listed as open, and the ground belongs to the Bureau of Land Management's Fillmore Field Office.
Tule Spring Road runs within a couple hundred feet of the spring, so this is a drive-up stop on public land. The country is low desert basin for Utah, around forty-four hundred feet, and among the driest in the record, with something like six inches of precipitation a year and very little snow. Fillmore Field Office manages the surrounding ground.
Winter is the listed season, and with so little snow out here that is a realistic plan. No campground appears on file anywhere near, so this is a long day from Delta or a self-contained overnight on BLM land. The water was sampled in 1983, newer than most springs in this part of the state but still decades old. Access is open on the record.
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 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
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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Tule Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.7). It is notably rich in magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief), sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation), and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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