Rancho Río Caliente Mexico Border

Rancho Río Caliente is a celebrated thermal wellness retreat in the forested volcanic highlands of Jalisco, Mexico — in the Sierra Madre mountains above Guadalajara — where siliceous geothermal water from volcanic springs fills outdoor pools set in a lush pine and oak forest landscape of the Primavera Forest, one of Mexico's most important protected temperate forest reserves. The ranch retreat, operated continuously as a vegetarian wellness destination since 1947 and making it one of North America's oldest continuously operating thermal wellness retreats, draws visitors seeking a holistic combination of natural hot spring bathing, hiking in the volcanic forest, and the traditional healing philosophy of its founding generation. The extraordinary combination of siliceous volcanic mineral water, protected pine-oak forest landscape of the Primavera Biosphere Reserve, and the cultural richness of nearby Guadalajara — Mexico's second city and the birthplace of mariachi, tequila, and the Mexican rodeo — creates one of western Mexico's most distinctive and historically rooted thermal wellness experiences.