Elsinore Hot Springs California

Elsinore Hot Springs in Lake Elsinore, Riverside County is one of Southern California's oldest established mineral spring resorts, its sulfurous volcanic waters from the geothermal zone of the Elsinore Fault serving a bathhouse tradition that dates to the late 19th century when the warm springs and mild inland valley climate made Lake Elsinore a fashionable health resort for Los Angeles society escaping the coastal fog. The historic bathhouse and pools preserve a fragment of California's grand early-20th-century health resort culture — when sulfurous mineral springs were a fashionable part of a long thermal tradition — in a modest and unpretentious establishment that continues to serve the inland Riverside County community with affordable mineral bathing. Lake Elsinore's famous hang-gliding, skydiving, and motorsports culture alongside the sulfurous thermal tradition creates an unexpected juxtaposition of extreme outdoor sports and mineral water bathing in California's warmest inland valley.