Willow Spring
A warm spring on BLM ground in Beaver County, Willow Spring sits well out from Milford, something like eighteen miles. The water is tepid, warm enough to feel and nowhere near bath heat. The Cedar City Field Office manages the land and access is open. High desert country, mild mineral content, and there is a photo of it on file.
The road goes unnamed in the record. Leave it and another fifth of a mile on foot gets you in. The elevation puts it in high sagebrush country where winter drops a fair amount of snow and the rest of the year stays dry. Hanging Rock Campground lies a little over four miles away, the nearest camping the record knows of.
December through February rank highest for a visit, though snow at this height can slow the approach. Open public land, no fee recorded. The chemistry on file comes from a sample taken in 1963 and the temperature reading is that old too, so the warmth today may not match.
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 Willow 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 272 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 48% 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 Willow Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.0) with 421 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Overview Hanging Rock Campground is located just off of Highway 21 between the towns of Beaver and Minerville, UT. The campground has six campsites all located alongside the scenic Beaver River. Along with the scenery that the river provides, it also offers what many consider to be the best fising in Beaver County. Recreation The Beaver River provides opportunity for year-round fishing. The Paiute ATV Trail and Beaver Bench Mountain Bike Trail System are located just down the road in Beaver,...
Willow Spring sits at 6,160 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 25% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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