Soboba Hot Springs California

Soboba Hot Springs near San Jacinto in Riverside County, California, sits on the ancestral lands of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians in the Hemet Valley at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains, where silica-rich geothermal waters in the seismically active region of the San Jacinto Fault have been used by indigenous Luiseño people for ceremonial and therapeutic purposes for thousands of years. The hot springs are now part of the Soboba Casino Resort on the Soboba Band's federally recognized tribal lands, where the thermal tradition is integrated into the contemporary tribal economy and cultural preservation efforts. Mount San Jacinto, rising to 10,834 feet above Palm Springs and accessible by the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, dominates the eastern horizon from the springs site, creating a dramatic vertical landscape backdrop from desert valley to alpine summit within a single glance.