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…

Esalen Hot Springs in Big Sur, California sits on a cliff above the Pacific Ocean, open to the public just…

Tassajara Hot Springs stopped me in my tracks the first time I read about it a geothermal spring running through…