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Breitenbush Hot Springs
A worker-owned cooperative in the Cascades combining natural hot springs with a retreat programme, off-grid and geothermally heated. Rebuilt after the 2020 fires.
Wellness Type: Hot springs & bathing
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Castle Hot Springs
Arizona's historic hot spring resort, reopened after decades closed, at the end of a long desert road. Three spring-fed pools stepping down in temperature.
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Old Town Hot Springs
The in-town option: a community recreation centre built on the springs, with lap lanes and waterslides alongside the hot pools. Unglamorous and genuinely useful.
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Indian Hot Springs
Caves rather than pools: geothermal chambers cut into the rock, plus a domed mineral swimming pool. The closest real hot spring to Denver.
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Durango Hot Springs
Rebuilt and expanded from the old Trimble Springs, with a wide spread of pool temperatures and Japanese-style private tubs.
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Hot Sulphur Springs Resort
Two dozen small pools terraced up a hillside above the Colorado River, plainly built and with no pretensions. Adults only in several of them.
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Wilbur Hot Springs
Off-grid on a private nature preserve, with long flumes of mineral water at descending temperatures. No phone signal, and that is the selling point.
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Harbin Hot Springs
A long-running clothing-optional retreat community north of Napa, rebuilt after the 2015 Valley Fire. Silence is expected in the pool area.
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Sierra Hot Springs
Several pools across a mountain meadow north of Truckee, including a domed indoor temple pool. Clothing-optional and membership-based.
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Vichy Springs Resort
Naturally carbonated mineral water in original 1860s bathing tubs — the fizzing is the distinguishing feature, and it is rare in North America.
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Grover Hot Springs State Park
A state park pool in an alpine meadow east of the Sierra crest. Simple, cheap, and the mineral content is high enough to stain the concrete.
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Buckeye Hot Springs
Hot water running over a cliff into a cold creek, reached by a steep scramble. Genuinely wild and genuinely slippery.
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Blackstone Hotsprings
In-room geothermal tubs in a restored mid-century motor court — the private end of the same aquifer, a few streets away.
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Riverbend Hot Springs
Pools on a terrace directly over the Rio Grande, in a town that renamed itself after a radio show and sits on a geothermal aquifer.
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Jemez Springs Bath House
A small town-owned bathhouse with private soaking tubs, continuously in use since the nineteenth century. Book ahead; there are not many tubs.
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Spence Hot Springs
A short steep walk up from the highway to open pools above the Jemez River. Free, unsupervised and busy at weekends.
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Kirkham Hot Springs
Hot water falling down a rock face into pools beside the South Fork Payette. One of the most photographed wild springs in the West and correspondingly…
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Montezuma Hot Springs
Free concrete and stone tubs below the old Montezuma Castle, maintained by the neighbouring school. Daylight hours only and the rules are posted.
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Goldbug Hot Springs
Two miles and a thousand feet of climbing to a set of pools in a side canyon. The walk filters the crowd and the view earns…
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The Springs
A purpose-built soaking house in the pines above Boise with a large main pool and private tubs. Reservation-based and adults-only at times.