Serpentine Hot Springs
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Hot springs in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, piped into an enclosed bathhouse next to a year-round bunkhouse and an unmaintained gravel airstrip. There are no roads, so most visitors fly in by air taxi, and in winter snowmachine trails are staked from Nome and Shishmaref. The site, known in Inupiaq as Iyat, has long cultural and spiritual importance.
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- Nome
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Plan your visit
Hours & season
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Tickets & booking
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On site
| Lodging | Yes |
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Not stated by the venue: access, swimwear, ages, dogs.
Water temperature
This venue doesn't publish pool temperatures.
Mineral profile
Total dissolved minerals
2,600 mg/L
Highly mineralized · Sodium–chloride (salty, brine-like water)
- pH
- 7.8
- Temp at source
- 154°F
- Lithium
- 5 mg/L
- Boron
- 3.2 mg/L
- Iron
- 0.03 mg/L
Lab analysis of the source water at a USGS sampling site (0.5 mi from Serpentine Hot Springs), sampled 1976 by the USGS and partners (data). Pool water may be cooled, mixed or treated, and spring chemistry is generally stable over decades. We report measurements only; we don't make health claims.
Facilities
- Restrooms: yes
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What's here
- enclosed bathhouse fed by piped spring water
- bunkhouse open year-round
- unmaintained gravel airstrip
- granite tors
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Getting there
| Elevation | 378 ft |
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Things to do near Nome
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Roadless preserve on the Seward Peninsula; Nome office 907-759-8020.
Nearby springs
Chena Hot Springs Resort
A year-round resort at the end of Chena Hot Springs Road northeast of Fairbanks, built around an outdoor hot springs lake of about 106°F that is open only to guests 18 and over. The Pool House also has an indoor family pool and indoor and outdoor hot tubs, and day passes need no hotel stay. The resort has lodge rooms, cabins, summer camping and the Aurora Ice Museum.
Neka Hot Springs
A Forest Service hot tub on Chichagof Island, reached by a 0.2-mile boardwalk across muskeg near milepost 9 of Forest Road 8580. Getting there means a boat to Eight Fathom Dock, 16 miles southwest of Hoonah, then nine miles on a single-lane road. There are vault toilets but no drinking water, and brown bears often use the area.
White Sulphur Springs
A Forest Service bathhouse and public-use cabin on Bertha Bay, on the outer coast of Chichagof Island in the West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness, about 65 miles northwest of Sitka. Boaters anchor at Mirror Harbor and walk a fairly level 0.9-mile trail, or skiff in from Porcupine Bay. The cabin sleeps four and is reserved on Recreation.gov.
Chena Hot Springs Resort: 536 mi · Neka Hot Springs: 1066 mi · White Sulphur Springs: 1066 mi
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· checked November 2026
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