Red Canyon
Can you soak at Red Canyon?
The water leaves the ground at 72°F, about as warm as a heated pool. You can drive right up to it. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Red Canyon is a warm spring in Kane County, about ten miles from Kanab, the nearest town of any size in the listing. The water is mildly warm, a little above room temperature. No owner, no access status and no chemistry are on file, and there is no photo. The record gives a temperature and a location and little else.
Roadside, about 225 feet from the road, at about 5,400 feet. Around two and a half feet of snow falls over a winter; the area is dry. Nothing on file names the road or the land manager.
The cold months are flagged. Ponderosa Grove Campground is about ten miles away. Access is unrecorded, so confirm before you go. The temperature has no sample date attached, so test it yourself. No fee on file.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
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
- 194 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 24% 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 The Ponderosa Grove campground is situated approximately eight miles to the northwest of Kanab, Utah, at 6,300 feet in elevation and is named for the small canopy of ponderosa pine trees that shade its campsites. The climate in the area ranges from extremely cold in the winter to temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer months. Recreation Ponderosa Grove campground was designed and constructed in the 1970’s. As the adjacent sand dunes became a popular off-highway-v...
Red Canyon sits at 5,360 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 21% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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