Mercey Hot Springs California
- Location
- Three Rocks, United States
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °C
- pH
- 7.5
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Mercey Hot Springs occupies a secluded property in the interior Coast Ranges of California, set among golden hills and dry creek canyons near the hamlet of Three Rocks in Fresno County. This low-key thermal retreat, reached by a dirt road that winds through the folded grassland terrain, sits at the convergence of the arid inland valleys and the coastal mountain barrier, far from any urban center.
The sodium-chloride spring waters flow at 41 °C—enveloping and warm enough to fully offset the cold desert nights that descend swiftly on the Coast Ranges—with a neutral pH of 7.5 that gives the water a gentle, undemanding mineral quality. The small outdoor soaking pools, arranged on a hillside of bare California clay, offer an experience shaped entirely by the surrounding landscape: an immensity of sky, the dry scent of sage and dust, and a silence broken only by wind. Mercey rewards those who seek the unpolished end of California's hot spring spectrum.