23 springs within 120 miles
Hot springs near Sacramento
23 hot springs are within 120 miles of Sacramento: the closest is Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa (57 mi), the hottest is Sierra Hot Springs (up to 112°F), and the lowest listed adult price is Grover Hot Springs State Park ($10). Distances are straight-line; driving distances in the mountains can be much longer.
- Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa57 mi
- Calistoga Motor Lodge and Spa58 mi
- Calistoga Spa Hot Springs58 mi
- Indian Springs Calistoga58 mi
- Solage, Auberge Resorts Collection58 mi
- UpValley Inn & Hot Springs58 mi
- Dr. Wilkinson's Backyard Resort & Mineral Springs59 mi
- Golden Haven Hot Springs Spa and Resort59 mi
- Morton's Warm Springs59 mi
- Mount View Hotel & Spa59 mi
- Roman Spa Hot Springs Resort59 mi
- Wilbur Hot Springs59 mi
- Meadowlark Country House and Resort60 mi
- Harbin Hot Springs64 mi
- Grover Hot Springs State Park89 mi
- Sierra Hot Springs92 mi
- David Walley's Resort94 mi
- Vichy Springs Resort98 mi
- Feather River Hot Springs102 mi
- Carson Hot Springs103 mi
- Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center & Spa109 mi
- Orr Hot Springs110 mi
- Buckeye Hot Springs120 mi
Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa
A large resort at Boyes Hot Springs, just north of Sonoma, built over thermal mineral springs. The adults-only Fairmont Spa has five geothermal mineral pools and a Roman-style bathhouse, while the family Main Resort Pool is also filled with naturally heated geothermal water and open year-round. Day visitors can book treatments or a spa pass through ResortPass.
Calistoga Motor Lodge and Spa
A retro-styled motor lodge at the north end of Lincoln Avenue, now part of JdV by Hyatt, with outdoor pools and a hot tub filled with mineral water from Calistoga's geothermal springs. MoonAcre Spa on site offers mud baths and massage. Day passes are sold through ResortPass.
Calistoga Spa Hot Springs
A downtown Calistoga resort built around four outdoor pools filled with geothermal mineral water from a well beneath the property, ranging from about 80 to 104°F. The covered, jetted octagonal Jet Pool is adults only. Pools are for room guests and people booking spa treatments, which include traditional volcanic ash mud baths.
Indian Springs Calistoga
A historic Calistoga resort whose Olympic-size Main Pool, built in 1913, is fed by mineral water from on-site geysers that surfaces around 230°F and is cooled in reservoirs. A smaller Adult Pool sits next door and runs about ten degrees cooler than the Main Pool. Hotel guests use the pools; day visitors need a spa booking plus a pool pass.
Solage, Auberge Resorts Collection
A resort on the Silverado Trail whose Spa Solage Bathhouse has five geothermal pools, from a 50-55°F cold plunge and an ambient magnesium pool to a 98°F relaxation pool and two jetted pools at 102-104°F. The signature Mudslide pairs a mud treatment with a private geothermal soak. The spa is 18+; non-guests can buy a Bathhouse Access Pass.
UpValley Inn & Hot Springs
A Lincoln Avenue hotel, formerly a Comfort Inn, whose outdoor swimming pool and whirlpool are filled with mineral water from its own geothermal well. A cedar dry sauna and steam room are included with the pool. Non-guests can buy a day pass through ResortPass.
Dr. Wilkinson's Backyard Resort & Mineral Springs
Calistoga's resort and spa running since 1952 on Lincoln Avenue, with three geothermal mineral pools, one indoor and two outdoor, set at about 85, 95 and 104°F. The 104°F Hot Spring is adults only. Day visitors can buy pool passes, daybeds and cabanas through ResortPass, and the spa still offers its original mud bath, The Works.
Golden Haven Hot Springs Spa and Resort
A family-owned spa and lodge on a residential street near downtown Calistoga, using mineral water from a geothermal aquifer beneath the property. Its gated, partly covered pool runs about 85-88°F, with two adjoining hot spas at 98-100°F and 102-104°F. There is no day use; the pool comes with a stay or any spa treatment, including shared couples mud baths.
Morton's Warm Springs
A family-oriented summer swimming resort in the Valley of the Moon with two geothermal mineral pools and a toddler wading pool, all around 90-94°F. The grounds along Sonoma Creek have picnic lawns and BBQs, and the deep pool is reserved for adult swim each morning. It is closed for the off-season and reopens May 1, 2027.
Mount View Hotel & Spa
A 1917 art deco hotel on Lincoln Avenue in downtown Calistoga with a day spa. Its mineral whirlpool and hydrotherapy tubs use water from the spa's own geothermal well, which surfaces at about 120°F, alongside a heated pool. Details could not be confirmed on the hotel's own site.
Roman Spa Hot Springs Resort
A downtown Calistoga hotel with three soaking pools filled with geothermal water from the resort's own wells: a large outdoor pool at about 92-96°F, an outdoor jetted hot tub at 103°F and an indoor jetted pool at 100°F. The Baths at Roman Spa offers mud baths made with geothermal water, volcanic ash and peat. Pools are soaking-only, with no diving or splash games.
Wilbur Hot Springs
An off-grid, solar-powered hot springs hotel on Sulphur Creek in western Colusa County, surrounded by a 1,560-acre nature preserve. Untreated mineral water flows continuously through flumes in a Japanese-style Fluminarium at about 100 to 109F, and the bathing area is clothing optional and device free. Confirmed reservations are required for both day use and overnight stays, and only guests 13 and older are admitted.
Meadowlark Country House and Resort
An adults-only country inn on Petrified Forest Road outside Calistoga with a mineral-water lap pool, mineral hot tub and Finnish sauna. The inn says its well water is warmed by volcanic activity; the pool is seasonally heated and not heated in winter. The pool area is clothing-optional, and day visitors can call ahead for a day or evening pass.
Harbin Hot Springs
A rustic, clothing-optional retreat center north of Middletown run by the non-profit Heart Consciousness Church, with eight Mainside pools ranging from a very hot enclosed pool to cold plunges, plus a sauna and steam room. Visitors buy a membership and a 3-, 6- or 24-hour pass, and the property bans alcohol, drugs, phones and cameras. Rebuilding after the 2015 Valley Fire continues, with two new Mainside hotels under construction.
Grover Hot Springs State Park
A California state park 4 miles west of Markleeville with a concrete hot mineral pool fed by six springs and a separate cooler swimming pool, run with a lifeguard on duty. The hot pool is kept at 102-104°F, and pool entry is sold separately from the $8 vehicle day-use fee. The park also has a forested campground, picnic area and trails to a waterfall and Burnside Lake.
Sierra Hot Springs
A nonprofit hot springs retreat on more than 600 acres outside Sierraville, about 30 minutes north of Truckee. Its four soaking areas run from the 95-96F Phoenix Baths to the 110-112F Temple Dome Hot Pool, which sits under a geodesic dome with two cold plunges, and all soaking areas are clothing optional. Every visit needs an advance reservation and at least one member in the party, and stays are in the Main Lodge, the Globe Hotel or the campground.
David Walley's Resort
A Holiday Inn Club Vacations resort at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, 1.5 miles from Genoa, on a hot springs site developed in the 1860s. Day visitors pay one fee for the mineral spas (98-104°F), a geothermally heated swimming pool, steam rooms and dry saunas. Lodging ranges from studios to three-bedroom cottages, and the 1862 Restaurant & Saloon is on site.
Vichy Springs Resort
A historic resort and country inn in the hills east of Ukiah, operating since 1854 and listed as California Historical Landmark #980. Its signature is 14 tubs of naturally carbonated mineral water at about 90F, alongside a 104F hot pool and a seasonal 25-meter swimming pool. Day visitors pay by 2-hour, 3-hour or all-day blocks and can use trails on the 700-acre reserve; bathing suits are required.
Feather River Hot Springs
A small, rustic private campground and cabin site on the Feather River off Highway 70 near Twain, with two riverside tubs at 99 to 104F. Soaks are booked by text in two-hour slots, swimsuits are required, and children are not allowed at the springs. The operator has posted that the springs and all lodging are temporarily closed for medical reasons.
Carson Hot Springs
A historic hot springs on the east side of Carson City, run as a resort since the 1880s, with four outdoor pools and hot tubs at 98-104°F and nine private indoor pools. The 121°F mineral water flows through the pools with no chemicals or city water added, and every pool is drained and refilled daily. Admission is sold in 2-hour blocks without reservations, and a restaurant and brewery share the property.
Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center & Spa
A small nonprofit bathhouse on South Virginia Street in south Reno, on a geothermal site used for bathing since the 1850s. Visitors book private mineral-bath rooms or an outdoor mineral tub with a cold plunge, filled with water pumped straight from the ground, and massage and spa treatments are offered alongside. Children under 12 are not admitted.
Orr Hot Springs
A small clothing-optional resort on 27 acres at the headwaters of Big River, about 12 miles west of Ukiah on Orr Springs Road. The bathhouse has private and communal tubs, a swimming pool, sauna, steam room and cold plunge, and guests cook their own meals in a shared kitchen because no food is sold. Day use runs noon to 9pm by reservation, and there is no cell service or WiFi.
Buckeye Hot Springs
Undeveloped pools beside Buckeye Creek in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, about 10 miles from Bridgeport and just east of Buckeye Campground. The Forest Service says the 140°F spring spills over a rock overhang into a cave-like pool, with a smaller spring upstream. A 2022 project added a vault toilet, a formal parking area, a single trail to the pools and interpretive signs.