Little Sheep Mountain Spring
Little Sheep Mountain Spring is a cool spring on BLM land in Big Horn County, Wyoming, a dozen miles from Lovell. The water is in the high sixties, which is cold for a soak and warm only on paper. Public land under the Cody Field Office, access open.
Low and dry. Under four thousand feet, with around eleven inches of precipitation a year and two feet of snow, this is desert country by the numbers. The spring is a third of a mile from an unnamed road, so a short walk. Cottonwood Creek Trailhead and Campground is the nearest camping on record, about ten miles away.
Winter months rank best on file. Snow is light. Open BLM land, no fee recorded. Water is cold, no hazard, no chemistry on record. The nearest camping is a ten-mile drive.
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 Little Sheep Mountain 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
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 398 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 1% 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.
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The Cottonwood Creek Trailhead/Campground features an interpretive kiosk, five campsites with fire rings, picnic tables toilet facility, four horse corrals, a horse watering trough and food storage boxes.
Little Sheep Mountain Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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