Salt Spring
Salt Spring is a spring in Utah, at a modelled elevation of 1,286 m. Wildcat Ridge stands 2,981 m to the east-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Salt Lake Model Airplane Airport, a park 2.1 miles away. Great Salt Lake Scenic Byway passes 7.0 miles off.
How to reach it
- 7.0 mi off the Great Salt Lake Scenic Byway
- 16.9 mi off the Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway
- 17.6 mi off the Morgan-Parleys State Scenic Byway
- 19.5 mi off the Little Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Salt Lake Model Airplane Airport: 2.1 mi
- Sugar Plum Park: 4.0 mi
- Public Works Wetland Park: 4.1 mi
- Trailblazer Park: 4.2 mi
- Highbury Park: 4.3 mi
- Drifting Waters: 3.5 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 4.2 mi
- Monument: 4.4 mi
- Central Overland Trail - Tooele Branch - Jordan River Bridge: 6.6 mi
- Kathy Elton: 7.0 mi
- Magna Community Garden: 4.4 mi
- Vegetable Mining Operation Community Garden: 6.1 mi
- Og-woi People's Orchard and Gardens: 6.2 mi
- Rose Park Community Garden: 6.3 mi
- 9-Line Orchard: 6.8 mi
- The "C": 5.7 mi
- Cross E Ranch: 7.4 mi
- Fear Factory: 7.5 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 7.7 mi
- Dreamscapes: 7.7 mi
- Round Knoll: 6.2 mi
- Cow Bay Knoll: 6.7 mi
- Rabbit Knoll: 6.7 mi
- Ensign Peak: 8.7 mi
- Garr Knolls: 9.6 mi
- #1 - Raspberry: 9.4 mi
- #2 - Hidden Falls: 9.5 mi
- #3 - Cherry Tree Grove: 9.5 mi
- #4 - Box Elder: 9.6 mi
- #5 - Elbow Turn: 9.6 mi
- Magna Mining Museum: 4.7 mi
- Rio Grande Depot: 7.7 mi
- Discovery Gateway Children's Museum: 7.7 mi
- Clark Planetarium: 7.8 mi
- Land Cruiser Heritage Museum: 7.8 mi
- Tabitha Springs: 6.9 mi
- Maple Spring: 9.7 mi
- Mud Spring: 10.5 mi
- Baskin Spring: 11.0 mi
- Enoch Spring: 11.4 mi
- Hidden Falls: 19.3 mi
- Moss Ledge Waterfall: 19.9 mi
- Rocky Mouth Canyon Waterfall: 20.0 mi
- Lower Bells Canyon Waterfall: 20.3 mi
- Upper Bells Canyon Waterfall: 20.8 mi
- Fife Wetland Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Cougar Park Nature Preserve: 9.4 mi
- H-Rock Open Space: 12.8 mi
- Big Bend Habitat Restoration Area: 13.7 mi
- Legacy Nature Reserve: 14.4 mi
- Bacchus: 7.4 mi
- Johnson: 12.8 mi
- Bingham Canyon: 14.8 mi
- Lark: 16.7 mi
- Silver Sands Beach: 8.3 mi
- Sunset Beach: 9.3 mi
- Camera Flats: 18.2 mi
- Bridger Bay Beach: 22.3 mi
- Rattlesnake Point: 14.1 mi
- Cambria Point: 16.6 mi
- Black Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Morgan Point: 23.8 mi
- Industrial Arch: 8.3 mi
- Hole in the Rock.: 11.6 mi
- Storm Window Arch: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Salt Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildcat Ridge | ESE 114° | 2,981 m | 17.8 mi |
| Mount Olympus East | ESE 115° | 2,979 m | 17.7 mi |
| Grandview Peak | ENE 69° | 2,866 m | 16.8 mi |
| Triangle Peak | ESE 116° | 2,854 m | 17.3 mi |
| Nelson Peak | SW 214° | 2,829 m | 12.5 mi |
| Bountiful Peak | NE 41° | 2,823 m | 18.5 mi |
| Sessions Mountain (west) | ENE 63° | 2,822 m | 16.6 mi |
| Bates Peak | SW 217° | 2,797 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:04 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 05:58 | 20:22 | 21:04 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:51 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:50 | 16:21 | 17:04 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 37 | 46 | 52 | 62 | 72 | 81 | 79 | 68 | 55 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salt Lake City Intl AP, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Feb–Jun — fullest in Jun, leanest in Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 125 | 293 | 407 | 372 | 468 | 517 | 192 | 127 | 105 | 97.8 | 92.7 | 87.0 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Goggin Drain Near Magna Utah, 5 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- California Gull165 obs
- Pronghorn42 obs
- American White Pelican36 obs
- Canada Goose33 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle32 obs
- American Avocet29 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird21 obs
- Great Blue Heron19 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/485491643
Day trips start here
- Salt Lake City · 9 mi
- Sandy · 17 mi
- Draper · 20 mi
- Tooele · 20 mi
- Wasatch Range · 23 mi
- Lehi · 28 mi
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