Horseshoe Springs
Can you soak at Horseshoe Springs?
The water leaves the ground at 73°F, about as warm as a heated pool. You can drive right up to it. It's on Bureau of Land Management land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Horseshoe Springs is a warm spring on open BLM ground in Tooele County, a dozen or so miles from Grantsville. Access is recorded as open. The water runs lukewarm, the sort of temperature you would wade in on a cold day and think about for a minute afterward.
The Salt Lake Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management manages the land, which is flagged as public. You can park and walk a few hundred feet; no trail or grade is described on file. Elevation is low desert basin by Utah standards, a bit over four thousand feet, and the climate is dry, with a light winter snowfall compared with the mountain springs around the state.
Best months listed are December through February. Because it is roadside and on public land, winter access should mostly come down to road conditions on the day. Loop Campground is the closest camping logged, about ten miles out. No water chemistry has been sampled here, so the mineral content is unrecorded. No fee is noted.
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 Horseshoe 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 62 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 66% 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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Overview Loop Campground is located southwest of Grantsville, Utah, in South Willow Canyon at an elevation of 7,400 feet. It’s located in the Stansbury Range where visitors enjoy exploring local trails. Recreation The multi-use Stansbury Front Trail and Medina Flat Trail begin across the road from the entrance, offering access to the rugged Deseret Peak Wilderness. Willow Creek offers rainbow and brown trout fishing. Facilities This campground has 9 single sites and 1 double site and has vaul...
Horseshoe Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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