Breitenbush Hot Springs Oregon

Breitenbush Hot Springs is a cooperative retreat centre and hot springs resort in the Cascade Mountains of Marion County, Oregon, operated by a worker cooperative community since 1977 in a philosophy of sustainable living, spiritual development, and environmental stewardship that has made it one of America's most distinctive alternative wellness communities. The naturally hot bicarbonate spring water emerges throughout the property at various temperatures, feeding outdoor soaking pools, steam houses, and a geothermally heated conference centre — the springs also provide nearly all the resort's electricity and space heating through a geothermal energy system. The surrounding Willamette National Forest, with its old-growth trees, Breitenbush River corridor, and the proximity of Mount Jefferson Wilderness, creates an exceptionally pristine and biologically diverse Cascade forest setting for the hot springs. Breitenbush's unique combination of genuine hot spring bathing, renewable geothermal energy, worker-cooperative community structure, yoga and meditation programming, and pristine Cascade Mountain wilderness makes it one of the most philosophically coherent and authentically alternative hot spring retreat experiences available anywhere in North America.