Manley Hot Springs

Manley Hot Springs is a small and remote community of fewer than 200 people in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska, set along the Tanana River's tributary system at the edge of the vast boreal wilderness where dog mushing culture, bush plane access, and subsistence living define the rhythm of daily existence in one of North America's most isolated inhabited places. The natural geothermal spring waters here have long provided year-round warmth to a community that endures fierce subarctic winters where temperatures can plunge far below -40 degrees Celsius, making the hot spring pools a vital gathering place for residents and the rare visitors who reach this far-off Alaskan village by unpaved road or bush aircraft. Soaking in the mineral-rich sodium waters here, surrounded by boreal forest and the immense silence of Alaska's interior wilderness, offers an extraordinary experience of thermal bathing at the very edge of civilization in the Last Frontier.