Best New Hot Springs for 2024
Welcome the the newest hot springs of 2024. More and more people are finding ways to enjoy the benefits of hot springs. Minerals in hot springs can provide many healing properties from stress and anxiety to relief to muscle relief and even benefits to our immune system.
More people are revitalizing old hot springs that had been left abandoned. Prior to the pandemic, thermal/mineral springs was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the wellness economy. The Global Wellness Institute estimates that at least 150 new thermal/mineral springs establishments opened from 2020 to 2022, across every region of the world, and over 250 projects are in the pipeline for future new openings/development.
Murieta Hot Springs, California
For more than 100 years Southern California’s culture has been woven through the healing waters of Murrieta Hot Springs. For the past 30 years, historic Southern California hot springs retreat Murrieta Hot Springs Resort has been out of action and closed to the public. Re-opened in 2024, nestled amid a mountainous backdrop and towering palms, timeless elegance and contemporary charm collide at their hot springs resort where our geothermal waters have proven curative for centuries. More than 50 pools and water features are complemented by 174 rooms ranging from cozy comfort to suites and rooms with private soaking tubs.
2. Jacumba Hot Springs, California
Technically Jacumba Hot Springs reopened in late 2023. The remote town of Jacumba Hot Springs, California, about an hour’s drive east of San Diego in the Sonoran Desert, has been a Native American healing and gathering place for millenniums. (The word “jacumba” is a Kumeyaay Indian word meaning both “magic springs” and “hot water.”).
Note: Stay the night and get exclusive access to The Echo Room and Solstice Mineral Pools. The Echo Room is a smaller indoor soaking pool open 24 hours a day that is enhanced by reverberations created by light refracted from the skylight and a gentle echo within the coved walls.
In the 1920s and ’30s, it also became a popular destination for Hollywood types, attracting the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable. But by the time the San Diego-based interior designer Melissa Strukel came across the original Jacumba Hot Springs Spa in June 2020, it was neglected and for sale. Along with two friends, she bought the place and has transformed it into an eclectic 20-room property with Spanish-style terra-cotta tiles, Moroccan lanterns and textile artworks by local artists, as well as a lively restaurant and three pools fed by the mineral-rich springs.
3. Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Springs, Oregon
Nestled in Warm Springs, Oregon, Kah-Nee-Ta was forced to close in 2018 due to bad economic times and the lack of resources to overhaul the area’s deficient water system but reopened in 2024. The Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs, the Paiute, Wasco, and Warm Springs people share their history and culture with visitors through restaurants, museums, and other attractions.
The hot spring at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort is a natural wonder with restoring healing properties. The water is rich in minerals, including magnesium, calcium, and potassium, which aids in providing guests with therapeutic benefits. The family-friendly hot springs resort has large outdoor natural hot springs soaking pools where temperatures will vary from 92 to 104 degrees, have fun in the Lazy River pools, or let the little ones play in the zero-depth entry pool.
4. Charlotte Hot Springs, Colorado
Colorado’s newest hot spring has a beautiful tropical indoor garden to explore while you are taking a break from your soak.
The greenhouses sit on the 60-acre property now also home to Charlotte Hot Springs. The same geothermal water feeding the greenhouses also feeds the pools. A waterfall pours into a pond, serenading visitors who have taken their packed lunches inside.
Outside, they soak in the pools on a terraced, fenced-in deck surrounded by pines, with Mount Princeton in view. Costs are $30 for adults (older than 17) Monday-Thursday, $25 for youth, seniors and military. Day passes are $5 more Friday-Sunday.
There are also two rustic cabins a short drive away, with their own private hot springs: the one-bedroom Holloway Cabin (starting at $450 a night) and the two-bedroom Merrifield Cabin ($600).
5. WorldSprings, Texas
Dallas Texas’ newest hot springs, WorldSprings is a 10-acre outdoor social-wellness destination designed to help guests of all ages recharge, reconnect and improve their wellbeing.
The property is home to a whopping 46 pools, ranging in temperature from 55°F (12.7°C) cold plunge pools to 104°F (40°C) bodies of water.
Four minerally dense destination areas designed to replicate the soaking experience of the Americas, Europe, Asia and South Pacific regions of the world. These pools are for 18+ adults only. The freshwater Globe Pool, created for all ages. The Dead Sea pool, a saline-enriched pool for 18+ adults only.
WorldSprings also features a 12-treatment-room spa, seven saunas, fire pits, poolside drink spaces and cabanas, as well as an F&B outlet, welcome area, lockers and retail space.
6. Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai, Japan
Housing a total of 65 eateries and shops, and a 24-hour onsen and spa resort, Japan’s latests onsen, Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai aims to draw 2.6 million visitors annually.
The hot spring area has an open-air bath and footbath with a view over Tokyo Bay as well as accommodation facilities, with water sourced from the famous hot spring regions of Hakone and Yugawara. At the Manyo Club Company you can enjoy springs, sauna, and a comfy overnight recliner.
7. Eynsham Baths at Estelle Manor, England
Set on a 60-acre estate in England’s verdant Oxfordshire county, Estelle Manor is a Grade II-listed landmark house. Eynsham Baths is a new spa in a 3,000-square-foot neo-Classical-style building with stone columns and hand-shaped bricks. The centerpiece is a vast tepidarium (a heated room in a Roman-style bath) with five thermal pools, a lounge and 10 treatment rooms.
Reached by a winding path and surrounded by centuries-old woodlands, the standalone building is defined by neoclassical architecture – sculpted columns, pilasters, hand-shaped bricks and carved marble details – in a nod to nearby Roman villa ruins.
A grand mezzanine bathing hall flooded with natural light lies at the heart of Eynsham Baths. Here guests can journey through five pools ranging in temperature or cool off through a series of walkthrough showers and plunge buckets.
In recognition of Roman spa history, there’s a focus on thermodynamics where guests can experience a bathing circuit at their own pace or opt for one of two specially devised contrast bathing cycles. Special 180 minute thermal journeys include a Frigidarium to Caldarium, Tepidarium to Hay Sauna, stimulating the body’s immune system and metabolic rate, while soothing the nervous system.
8. Badeschloss, Austria
Nestled on Straubinger Platz in the Austrian spa town of Bad Gastein, the historic Bad Gastein bathing castle, originally built in 1791, was magnificently restored and reopened in the new year of 2024. Once such a glamorous spa town that Austria’s Empress Sisi was a regular in the 19th century, the village of Bad Gastein fell out of fashion in the 1980s, leaving many of its grand Belle Époque hotels empty.
The latest property to open is the Badeschloss (or Bathing Castle), formerly a public spa built in the late 18th century, which includes a 102-room hotel. The appeal of the waters of Bad Gastein is that they contain low levels of radon, a radioactive element that, while dangerous when inhaled, is also used — in small, supervised doses — to treat rheumatic diseases. For those interested, the hotel can organize sessions at the Gasteiner Heilstollen, a nearby health center that offers controlled radon baths.
The Alpine Swim Club includes a sauna area and relaxation rooms as well as a spa and rooftop infinity pool. From the pool on the 14th floor, guests have an unobstructed picture-book view of the picturesque Gastein Valley.
Coming Soon
9. Zion Canyon Hot Springs, Utah
Mockup of Zion Hot Springs
The Pah Tempe hot springs, which are also known as the La Verkin Sulphur Springs or Dixie Hot Springs, have been closed for more than a decade. The area of the Virgin River where the springs sit is surrounded by tall cliffs, and falling rocks pose significant risk to visitors. But locals and tourists stopping at nearby Zion National Park will be able to enjoy the water from the natural hot springs next year, when a $60 million resort is set to be finished up the canyon in La Verkin.
Zion Canyon Hot Springs is scheduled to open in the fall of 2025, featuring 53 different bodies of water and a wellness facility. While you wait, try other hot springs in Utah.
The resort, set to be located roughly 30 minutes from Zion National Park, will boast 32 natural hot spring pools, 16 adult-only pools, three barrel saunas, three cold-dip pools, and a large freshwater pool and spa. They are installing a device to remove that rotten egg smell of sulphur - we just hope they don’t remove the health benefits of sulfur. The resort is the result of a collaboration between Iron Mountain Hot Springs, located in Colorado, and the Washington County Water Conservation District.
10. ATONA Hot Spring Inn, Japan
Hyatt Hotels and Kiraku, Inc. have announced that ATONA, the modern hot spring ryokan (Japanese-style inn) brand, will open properties in Yufu, Yakushima and Hakone.
The first ATONA inns are slated to open in 2026 across some of Japan’s hot spring destinations.
Each ATONA ryokan will embrace a “small luxury” concept focused on hot springs and unique destinations, with well-being and culinary experiences unique to their locales. ATONA properties will typically have 30 to 50 guestrooms and will offer restaurants with open kitchens and bars showcasing seasonal ingredients.
11. Hoshino Resort, New York
Sharon Springs Imperial Baths, New York
Hoshino Resorts, a 110-year-old company famed for its luxury hot springs hotels in Japan, will open its first resort location in the continental United States in a small New York town.
The hotel operator plans to build a luxury resort with up to 40 rooms in Sharon Springs — a 3.5-hour drive from New York City — that will open by 2028, according to a statement on the company’s website.
Onsen ryokan are typically small Japanese inns in remote and scenic locations, where guests relax by bathing naked in natural hot springs water and enjoy locally sourced and seasonal cuisine. At the Hoshinoya Tokyo, the 84 rooms have plush mattresses instead of traditional futons, and there are on-site meditation classes to complement the onsen bathing experience. There’s also been increased business interest in capitalizing on the growing popularity around Japan’s cultural experiences.
