Stanley Hot Springs

Stanley Hot Springs is a remote natural geothermal site in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of northern Idaho, where siliceous hot water emerges from the ancient metamorphic basement in one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the contiguous United States. The springs, accessible only by a multi-day wilderness backpacking trip of extraordinary beauty through old-growth cedar forests and along pristine river canyons, offer one of the most rewarding backcountry hot spring experiences in the Pacific Northwest. The surrounding Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem, with its wolves, grizzly bears, elk, and intact temperate rainforest, represents one of America's greatest remaining wilderness landscapes.