Serpentine Hot Springs
- Location
- Bering Land Bridge, Alaska, United States
- Water type
- sodium chloride, silica
- Temperature
- 54 °C
- pH
- 7.4
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Serpentine Hot Springs is one of the most remote and spectacular wild hot springs in North America, located within the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in western Alaska, a vast and windswept wilderness accessible only by small aircraft that preserves the ancient land bridge terrain over which the first humans migrated from Asia into the Americas tens of thousands of years ago. The springs emerge at a temperature of approximately 54 degrees Celsius amid a landscape of volcanic tundra, granite tors, and braided Arctic rivers that supports musk ox, caribou, brown bear, and migratory birds traversing one of the world's great wildlife corridors. A simple wooden bathhouse allows visitors to experience the powerful decontaminating and mineral-rich waters of this extraordinary sodium-siliceous spring in a setting of almost incomprehensible natural remoteness and geological antiquity, a primal encounter with geothermal energy in the land where human history in the Americas began.