Zeigler Hot Springs
- Location
- Gibbonsville, Idaho, United States
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Zeigler Hot Springs surfaces near Gibbonsville, a tiny former mining settlement in the remote Salmon River Mountains of central Idaho, close to the Montana border. This natural hot spring belongs to the wild, unmanicured tradition of Idaho backcountry soaking — a place reached by those willing to travel logging roads through dense conifer forest, rewarded with a spring in a landscape that bears no mark of commercial development.
The spring flows at 40 °C, among the warmer temperatures in Idaho's natural hot spring landscape, with an acidic pH of 6.5 that reflects the sulfurous character of the water. That combination of genuine heat and sulfurous mineral signature produces a soaking experience that is assertive rather than mild — a proper geothermal spring in the full sense, surrounded by the towering lodgepole and fir of the Salmon River backcountry. The Gibbonsville area, with its gold rush history and mountain isolation, lends this spring an atmosphere of genuinely remote discovery.