Utah Hot Springs, on a line, and closed for over fifty years.

No. No public body located in this research publishes any public access, trail, viewpoint, interpretive sign or opening hours at the site. The Utah Geological Survey describes the setting in its own words as within an urban-industrial setting adjacent to a utility corridor, highway, and Interstate 15, and records that the resort was torn down about 1970 while two cisterns remain that were used to collect the spring water, on private ground. The correct treatment of this subject is history and geology from a distance, which is what this page does, and nothing here is an invitation.

Both, and the issuing bodies are consistent about it once they are read together. The Utah Geological Survey heads its own entry Utah Hot Springs, Box Elder and Weber Counties and states that the springs issue from several orifices on the Box Elder and Weber County line. Tested against the state boundary layers on 21 August 2026, that line at longitude 112.029 west runs at latitude 41.33652 while Pleasant View's northern city boundary runs at 41.33640, about fifty feet apart. So orifices on the Weber side fall inside Pleasant View city limits and orifices on the Box Elder side are outside any city. Nobody publishes a coordinate for the orifices themselves.

Partly, and the city claims them as its history in any case. Pleasant View's own history page records that John C. Fremont visited the hot springs in Pleasant View in 1843 during his Great Salt Lake exploration and that the springs were well known for their medicinal purposes. On the ground the Weber County parcel extract shows every parcel immediately south and west of the county line carrying the parcel city Pleasant View and tax district 428, with Box Elder County parcels and the Brigham City address grid beginning immediately north. The story is the city's, the water is on a boundary, and both statements are true at once.

It was torn down about 1970, on the Utah Geological Survey's own account. The same entry records the sequence before that: the hot springs were on the Hensley and Salt Lake Cutoff emigrant trail used in the 1850s, at the turn of the century a resort with a geothermally heated pool was built, and special trains were run from Salt Lake City and Ogden to the resort while it was in use. What the survey says remains are two cisterns that were used to collect the spring water. No opening or closing date beyond about 1970 was found published by any body in this research.

The Utah Geological Survey gives a maximum reported water temperature of 63 degrees Celsius, which is 145 Fahrenheit, and records that temperatures reported in most studies ranged between 57 and 58.5 Celsius, or 135 and 137 Fahrenheit. Those figures come with a caution: the survey's page carries no publication or revision date, and neighbouring entries on the same page cite communications from 2009, so the readings should be treated as of about that vintage rather than as a 2026 measurement. There is no public access to the water in any case.

It was when the geological survey wrote its entry, and that entry is undated. The survey records the springs as currently used to heat a small commercial greenhouse operation, describes 24 double plastic covered greenhouses heated with geothermal water year round raising bedding plants and poinsettias sold wholesale to garden centres throughout northern Utah, and even notes that the high iron content in the water requires special fittings flushed out with a hose three or four times a year. Because the page appears to date from about 2009, this companion does not print the operator or the greenhouse count as present facts.

Because a state agency still names it that. The Utah Department of Transportation's own route description for SR-126 reads from Fort Lane at Layton Parkway Interchange northerly to Route 89 at Hot Springs Junction, which is the US-89 and SR-126 junction north of Pleasant View at Interstate 15 Exit 351, an exit signed Willard. A resort demolished about 1970 is still naming a junction in a state route file in 2026, and it is the strongest available evidence that this is a live place name on this corridor rather than a closed chapter.

In valley fill sediments at the western edge of what the Utah Geological Survey calls the Pleasant View spur, about 90 metres or 300 feet west of US-89, on the Box Elder and Weber county line, adjacent to the rail corridor, the utility corridor and Interstate 15. The survey adds one line that ties the whole corner together: the springs presently flow under the railroad and across a gentle slope. No public body publishes a coordinate for the orifices, so no more precise location is offered here, and there is no public access in any case.

It matters a great deal, and this corner is the clearest illustration of it in the city. Along the US-89 corridor Pleasant View's city limit and the Box Elder County line are effectively the same line, within about fifty feet on the state boundary layers. That means two parcels a few hundred feet apart can sit in different counties, on different address grids, with different assessors and different service arrangements. The Weber County parcel extract shows the switch happening exactly there, from Pleasant View and tax district 428 to Box Elder County and the Brigham City grid. Resolve any parcel near the top of this corridor at the county before an offer.