Six New Soaks on the Map: The Idaho Listings We Just Added

Our statewide map just had its biggest week since the site relaunched. Six new listings are live, and the map now carries 111 full listings, with 36 more springs named and waiting for their own pages. That is 146 Idaho hot springs documented in one place, and the number keeps growing because this state simply has that many places to soak.

The six newcomers could hardly be more different from each other. There is a private retreat on historic ground near New Meadows, a forest soak up in the Clearwater country, a lodge that has been welcoming guests since 1927, a primitive riverside pool you reach by wading a river, a rental-only spring near Bliss, and one famous old resort that survives only as history. Here is the quick tour.

Hot Springs at Goose Creek Retreat

Up in the West-Central country near New Meadows, the Goose Creek retreat is a private vacation rental where soaking is reserved for overnight guests. Two natural pools sit a short hike from the lodging: the lower pool runs 99 to 104 degrees, and the upper pool is gentler at 89 to 95 degrees. The ground carries real history, too. Old-timers knew this spring as Krigbaum, and later as Last Chance Hot Springs. The land was always private, but the former owners let people come and soak, and a lot of Idaho soakers from that era still remember it fondly.

Red River Hot Springs

Red River Hot Springs fills a gap on our map up in North-Central Idaho, in the Clearwater National Forest country. This is a developed, public soak that operates year-round, with public hours from 9 in the morning to 9 at night. Just plan around Tuesdays, when it is closed. For anyone touring the northern half of the state, it is a welcome anchor point in a region where good, reliable soaks are spread far apart.

Sawtooth Lodge at Grandjean

Some places you visit for the water, and some for the story. Sawtooth Lodge at Grandjean offers both. This historic private lodge at Grandjean, on the edge of the Sawtooths, dates to 1927, and its geothermal pool sits at a soaking-perfect 104 degrees. Nearly a century of travelers have made the drive up that valley to sit in this water, and the listing walks through what the lodge offers today.

Mormon Bend Hot Springs

Mormon Bend is the most old-school entry in this batch. These primitive riverside pools near Stanley are rebuilt by visitors each year, and reaching them means fording the Salmon River at low water, across from the Mormon Bend Campground. The pools run around 100 degrees, though the temperature varies with the river and with how the rocks are stacked. This is soaking the way it has always been done on the Salmon: no plumbing, no fee booth, just hot water meeting a cold river. Check river conditions before you go, and leave the pools tidy for the next soaker.

White Arrow Hot Springs

Near Bliss, in the Hagerman Valley stretch of South-Central Idaho, White Arrow Hot Springs is a private rental only, with no public day use. Book the place and the pool is yours, at temperatures running 90 to 104 degrees. Rental-only springs like this one have become one of the nicest ways to soak in Idaho: a guaranteed quiet pool, on your own schedule, in a valley that has drawn soakers for generations.

Guyer Hot Springs

We will be straight with you: Guyer is the one listing in this batch you cannot visit. This Ketchum resort opened on July 4, 1882, when soaking was serious business and every Western town with hot water built a grand place around it. Guyer closed in 1929, and the spring sits on private land today, closed to the public. We gave it a full listing anyway, because Idaho’s soaking story does not start with us. Knowing where people soaked 140 years ago is part of knowing this state, and Guyer’s chapter deserves its place on the record.

Find Your Next Soak

Six more springs, six more reasons to plan a drive. Whether you want a private pool of your own for a weekend, a forest soak at the end of a long road, or a walk through Idaho soaking history, the new listings are a good place to start. Head over to our statewide map of Idaho hot springs and see where these six landed, alongside the other 105 listings and the 36 named springs still to come. The water is out there.