Eden Hot Springs

Eden Hot Springs was a historic hot spring resort in Riverside County, California, representing the golden age of Southern California's thermal resort culture that flourished from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, when the discovery of geothermal mineral springs in the Inland Empire and desert regions drew visitors from the rapidly urbanizing Los Angeles basin to rustic and resort-class establishments set within the region's warm and dry landscape. Riverside County's thermal spring heritage reflects the geological activity of the San Andreas Fault system and associated transform plate boundary structures that generate geothermal heat flow across the Salton Trough and adjacent California desert ranges, creating thermal spring resources that supported both Indigenous Cahuilla bathing traditions and Euro-American resort development. Eden Hot Springs joins the storied tradition of California's thermal resort history — alongside Big Bear, Desert Hot Springs, and the Salton Sea spas — as a chapter in the state's distinctive spa landscape that shaped Southern California's wellness culture in the late Victorian and Progressive eras.