Elkhorn Hot Springs
- Location
- Polaris, Montana, United States
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 6.8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Elkhorn Hot Springs are situated near Polaris in Beaverhead County, Montana, in the Pioneer Mountains of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, a genuine off-grid resort property that has provided rustic mountain hot spring accommodation to visitors for over a century, maintaining the authentic character of a remote Rocky Mountain retreat where outdoor simplicity and thermal mineral bathing are the primary attractions. The surrounding Pioneer Mountains offer exceptional outdoor recreation including hiking trails to alpine lakes, fishing in crystal-clear mountain streams for native cutthroat trout, and cross-country skiing in winter across an uncrowded backcountry landscape of striking geological beauty. The hot spring pools at Elkhorn, drawing on mineral-rich geothermal waters of the Rocky Mountain West, provide the essential warm heart of this remote wilderness experience, where the absence of Wi-Fi and the presence of stars make each soak a genuinely restorative encounter with the natural world.