Giggling Springs Hot Spring

Giggling Springs Hot Spring is a boutique natural hot spring located in Jemez Springs, a small village in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico, in the Valles Caldera National Preserve — a 23-kilometre-wide supervolcanic caldera whose eruption 1.25 million years ago was one of the most powerful volcanic events in North American geological history, and whose geology continues to generate the geothermal heat feeding the Jemez hot springs. The chloride-rich geothermal waters reflect the intense volcanic activity of the Jemez Mountains, a zone of exceptional geothermal potential where numerous natural hot springs have been used by the indigenous Jemez Pueblo people for ceremonial and therapeutic bathing since time immemorial. The Jemez Mountains are sacred to the Towa-speaking Jemez people, whose ancestral homeland encompasses the canyon and whose pottery, dances, and feast days represent a living Indigenous cultural tradition that gives the hot spring landscape its deepest layer of meaning and spiritual significance.