Norris Hot Springs Montana
- Location
- Norris, United States
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 46 °C
- pH
- 7.1
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Norris Hot Springs sits in the broad Madison Valley of southwestern Montana, near the village of Norris where Jack Creek drains from the Tobacco Root Mountains into the surrounding ranchland. The resort is an informal, community-rooted hot spring destination that has served local Montanans and traveling visitors alike for generations, retaining a pleasantly unpretentious character.
The sodium-chloride waters emerge at a notably high 46 °C from the source, cooled to a bathing-ready temperature in the main pool, and carry a near-neutral pH of 7.1. The high natural temperature speaks to the volcanic heat reservoir beneath this section of the Rocky Mountain corridor, and the saline-mineral quality of the water gives immersion a distinctly warming, mineral-dense character. On clear Montana nights, with the Tobacco Root Mountains silhouetted against a sky crowded with stars, Norris Hot Springs delivers a quietly sublime version of the American West's hot spring tradition.