Warner Valley 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.
Warner Valley Spring is a tepid desert spring on Utah state trust land in Washington County, a few miles outside the town of Washington. The water comes up lukewarm and carries a heavy mineral load. Access is listed as open. The state manages this block of trust land as a recreation area, and it sits in low, hot country near the southwest corner of the state.
You can park beside it. The spring lies within a few feet of a road the record leaves unnamed, on the Warner Valley block of state trust lands. Low desert here, dry nearly year round, with winters that bring almost no snow. Red Cliffs Campground is the closest developed camping on file, roughly nine miles off.
The record scores December through February best for a visit. Drive-up access, no walk. Water sampled in spring 2018 came back heavy with dissolved solids, so expect a mineral taste and some residue. No fee is on record. Trust land rules can differ from federal land, and nothing on file covers overnight stays, so check before you camp close by.
The USGS carries this as a monitored thermal site and took its water sample in April 2018.
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 Warner Valley Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 125 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 36% 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 Warner Valley Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.3) with 1680 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief), and sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
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Overview Red Cliffs Recreation Area includes a campground, day use areas, a non-motorized trail system, and interpreted public use sites. Dinosaurs left their footprints, now visible in the sandstone. Ancestral Puebloans lived here in the 10th century, growing corn, beans, and squash along Quail and Leeds Creek. Mid-19th century pioneers farmed here, supplying the area’s silver miners with food. Located within the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, the Recreation Area is managed to cons...
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