Hot Springs Virginia Mountain Spa
- Location
- Hot Springs, United States
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Cradled within the Allegheny Highlands of Virginia, the mountain town of Hot Springs has long embodied a distinctly East Coast ideal of the spa retreat. The surrounding landscape of deciduous forests and rolling ridgelines creates a backdrop of quiet grandeur, setting the stage for an establishment whose identity is bound up with the Appalachian resort tradition. Generations of travellers have made the journey here for the particular atmosphere of refined seclusion that the Virginia Highlands afford.
Sodium-chloride water rises at a gentle 35 °C — a warm, unhurried heat well suited to prolonged immersion. The neutral pH of 7.0 makes for a remarkably balanced water, neither sharply acidic nor intensely alkaline. The tradition of bathing at Hot Springs carries a distinctly unhurried quality: long hours in covered pools, walks through wooded grounds, and the particular sense of time suspended that characterises the great American mountain spa experience.