Ricks Spring

This is an observation site.

General Information

Directions: 15.7 miles up Logan Canyon Scenic Byway ( Utah 89).

Recreation Map

Map showing recreational areas. Map Information

Activities

Viewing Scenery

Historically, Ricks Spring was used as a mountain spring water source until visitors became ill after drinking from it. Ice jams on the Logan River in 1972 and dye traces led scientists to find that the water of Ricks Spring was actually coming directly from the Logan River through a fracture in the rock. Folded rocks gave way to fractures and it is evident one of these fractures allows the river water to seep through the rock and exit at Ricks Spring. Great interpretive signs point out the folding and fracturing as well as denote who the spring was named after.
Special Feature Folding and fractured rocks.

Interpretive Areas

Historically, Ricks Spring was used as a mountain spring water source until visitors became ill after drinking from it. Ice jams on the Logan River in 1972 and dye traces led scientists to find that the water of Ricks Spring was actually coming directly from the Logan River through a fracture in the rock. Folded rocks gave way to fractures and it is evident one of these fractures allows the river water to seep through the rock and exit at Ricks Spring. Great interpretive signs point out the folding and fracturing as well as denote who the spring was named after.