San Francisco River Hot Springs

San Francisco River Hot Springs are natural geothermal springs along the San Francisco River in Grant County, New Mexico, near the historic mining ghost town of Mogollon, where hot spring-fed pools emerge from the volcanic geology of the Mogollon Highlands in a remote canyon landscape that requires careful river navigation to access in the extraordinary wilderness of the Gila National Forest. The bicarbonate-enriched thermal waters here flow into natural riverside pools along one of the American Southwest's most scenically magnificent and least-visited wild rivers, whose canyon walls of volcanic tuff and rhyolite preserve the dramatic geology of the ancient Mogollon Rim volcanic field. Bathing at San Francisco River Hot Springs combines the therapeutic experience of natural mineral spring bathing with immersion in the extraordinary geological and historical landscape of the New Mexico Mogollon country, where the legacy of ancient indigenous settlement, nineteenth-century silver mining, and the pristine wilderness preserved by Aldo Leopold's visionary conservation advocacy converge in one of the American Southwest's most remarkable natural environments.