Dripping Rock is an interesting spot in Spanish Fork, Utah. Water drips out of the rocks into the Spanish Fork River. While I would not go to this part of Utah just to see this, it is a nice easy walk if you are in the area. It can be especially fun for smaller children. Almost all of the trail is fairly level and paved. To get down to the water, you do have to scramble down a slope.
The trail to Dripping Rock is usually listed as under one mile, round-trip. If you like, you can continue along the paved trail for several miles.
You may not see "Dripping Rock' listed on many maps. So, here are directions. From Interstate 15, take exit 257. Drive east along US 6 toward Price for about four miles. Turn right onto Powerhouse Road, and then quickly right again onto Rivers Bottom Road. The first road on your left is for the parking lot, next to The Oaks Golf Course.
The source of the water appears to be groundwater seepage, but I am not certain about that.
A little history on the area. Spanish Fork was settled in 1851 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of the Mormon Pioneers' settlement of Utah Territory. Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route later followed by fur trappers. They described the area inhabited by Native Americans as having "spreading meadows, where there is sufficient irrigable land for two good settlements. Over and above these finest of advantages, it has plenty of firewood and timber in the adjacent sierra which surrounds it-many sheltered spots, waters, and pasturages, for raising cattle and sheep and horses." Wikipedia.
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Links
1. utahhikingbeauty.com/dripping...
2. www.alltrails.com/trail/us/ut...
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4. www.heissatopia.com/2018/06/d...
5. www.trailforks.com/trails/dri...
6. www.utahsadventurefamily.com/...
7. saltproject.co/blog/dripping-...
8. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundw...
9. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...
10. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...
11. pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1186/h...
12. www.usgs.gov/media/images/gro...
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16. vikaspedia.in/energy/environm...
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