Sweetwater Station Warm 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.
Sweetwater Station Warm Springs is a warm spring in Fremont County, Wyoming. The nearest town on record is Arapahoe, nearly forty miles away. Temperature is at the low edge of soaking warm. There is no land owner or public access listed, and no road name either, so the record is thin on who may visit and how.
Open Wyoming range at roughly 6,600 feet, dry, with a modest snow year. Getting there means a short walk of about three hundred feet from whatever road comes closest. No campground is on file. The water chemistry was sampled in June 1990 and shows a neutral pH.
Winter months head the best list. Access is unknown; nothing on file says the public may enter, so assume you need to ask. Temperature dates to the same period as the chemistry sample, 1990, which leaves room for change. No camping listed nearby.
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 Sweetwater Station Warm Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 44 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 30% 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 Sweetwater Station Warm Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5). It is notably rich in sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation) and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
Sweetwater Station Warm Springs sits at 6,640 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 27% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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