Just off Highway 12 in Sonoma, California, Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa rises from land where a natural hot…

Steam still drifts off three geothermal pools at 1507 Lincoln Avenue in downtown Calistoga, where Jon “The Doc” Wilkinson first…

I almost drove past this place the first time just a dirt turnout on a lonely stretch of Highway 190,…

The first time I smelled sulfur drifting across the Tecopa desert, I knew I’d found something worth pulling over for….

Some hot springs make you work for the soak dirt roads, no signage, just a pin on a map. Catalina…

Calistoga hot springs have pulled me back more times than I can count, but Carlin County Cottages Hot Springs is…

The Chocolate Mountains were going copper by the time I found the turn-off, steam already curling above the fence line…

Steam rising off a pool at 6 AM is how I judge a hot spring, and Boyes Hot Springs passed…

The mud was still under my nails three days after I left Tecopa, and I wasn’t sick of it. Tecopa…

The sulfur smell hit first, then the steam, then ten miles of trail finally made sense. I’m Vanessa, founder of…