Warm water in wild places
The springs atlas
Wild backcountry springs, color-shifting geothermal monuments, and resort pools fed by ancient volcanic heat — sorted by type, mineral and access.
1,014
Springs gathered
9
Soakable (curated)
3
Free to enter
Wild springs
Saturnia, Tuscany, Italy
Cascate del Mulino
Travertine waterfalls at exactly 37°C. Free. Tuscan. Eternal.
Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Kerosene Creek
A warm thermal river through a redwood forest. Free, unmarked, and perfect.
Fjallabak Nature Reserve, Iceland
Landmannalaugar Hot Spring
A free wild spring at the start of the Laugavegur trail. Rhyolite mountains, no facilities.
Developed resorts
Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
Blue Lagoon
Opaque blue-white water in a field of black lava. Nothing else looks like this.
Hidalgo, Mexico
Grutas de Tolantongo
Turquoise thermal rivers through limestone caves. One of the most visually extraordinary springs anywhere.
Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States
The Springs Resort — Mother Spring
The deepest geothermal hot spring on earth. Over 1,000 feet deep. 50+ pools on the San Juan River.
Villarrica, Los Ríos, Chile
Termas Geométricas
Twenty pools in a red-boarded gorge in the Andes. The most beautiful thermal bath design in South America.
Natural monuments
Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone, United States
Grand Prismatic Spring
The largest hot spring in the US. A rainbow of heat-loving bacteria. Do not touch the water.
Oaxaca, Mexico
Hierve el Agua
Petrified waterfalls of mineral-white stone 30 metres above the valley. Nothing else on earth looks like this.
Denizli Province, Turkey
Pamukkale Travertine Pools
Cotton Castle. White calcium terraces built by thermal water over ten thousand years.
The above are hand-picked. The full atlas holds 1,014 hot springs worldwide.
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