Sheep Mountain Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Sheep Mountain Springs is a tepid spring in Big Horn County, Wyoming, nine miles from Greybull. Barely warmer than the air on a summer afternoon. There is no land owner, land unit, or public access entry on file, so who controls the ground is an open question. It sits roughly a fifth of a mile past the end of the road, on foot from there.
Low, dry Bighorn Basin ground. Ten inches of rain a year and not much snow, with mild mean temperatures by the standards of this state. The road is unnamed on file. You walk a couple hundred yards. Nothing about the terrain, the pool, or the flow is recorded, and the chemistry was never sampled as far as the record shows.
Winter shows up as the best season on file, and with so little snow that may hold. Five Springs Falls Campground, sixteen miles distant, is the nearest camping listed. Ownership and permission are unknown; check before walking in. No temperature survey date is given, so take the figure as approximate.
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 Sheep Mountain Springs.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 365 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
Five Springs Falls Campground provides an excellent opportunity for camping, hiking, picnicking, and sightseeing. The elevation ranges from 6,520 feet at the campground to 7,240 feet at the forest boundary. This area offers breathtaking views of northern Bighorn Basin with a panoramic view of the Bighorn, Pryor, and Absaroka Mountains. Wildlife in the area include deer, elk, moose, black bear, and mountain lion.The lower loop of the campground contains 9 campsites with tent pads, fire rings,...
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