Steam drifts off outdoor mineral tubs before sunrise, rising against the quiet hills of Fresno County’s Little Panoche Valley. Mercey…

In the quiet heart of Lake Elsinore’s Historic District, Elsinore Hot Springs & Lodge has welcomed travelers to its mineral-rich…

Wind moves quietly across the San Jacinto foothills each evening in Desert Hot Springs, where steam drifts off a small…

Steam drifts across the mineral pool at Golden Haven Hot Springs Spa & Resort before the rest of Calistoga wakes…

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…