Broadwater Hot Springs
- Location
- Helena, Montana, United States
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Broadwater Hot Springs in Helena, Montana, draws on chloride-rich geothermal water from the Helena valley to feed a public aquatic centre and outdoor thermal pools that have served the Montana state capital's residents since the 1880s. The original Broadwater Hotel and Natatorium, opened in 1888, was the grandest thermal resort in the American West in its day, drawing visitors from across the continent to bathe in Montana's natural spring water; today a modern aquatic facility continues this thermal tradition. The backdrop of the Scratchgravel Hills and the Helena valley, with the Continental Divide visible to the east, gives this urban hot spring a distinctively Big Sky Montana character.