The 10 Best Hot Springs in New Mexico

Spence: soda-white terraces steaming over the East Fork Jemez — the state's signature short-walk soak, reopened after 2026's fire closure.

San Antonio: cliffside pools with the valley at your feet — drive-up in late summer, a 10-mile bike-and-soak when the gate's closed.

Truth or Consequences: a whole National Register town of bathhouses on the Rio Grande — Riverbend's riverside pools lead the district.

Gila Hot Springs: riverside pools at a family campground four miles from the cliff dwellings — $8 soaks, dark-sky camping.

Montezuma: the Lobster Pot, Cube, and Toaster below a Gilded-Age castle — free, volunteer-kept, 6am–10pm sharp.

McCauley: a CCC dam's warm swimming pool in the pines above Battleship Rock — verify the 2026 fire closure has lifted before the drive.

Jemez Springs Bath House: the village nonprofit pouring 1870s mineral water into private tubs for the price of lunch.

Faywood: clothed and naturist gardens under dark desert sky by City of Rocks — reservation-only now.

Manby: bathhouse ruins and river-edge pools in the Taos gorge — road access is gone forever; raft in or hike the fisherman's trail.

Turkey Creek: the Gila Wilderness' hidden pools, three fords and a route-finding test past every wrong map pin — ours included, until we fixed it.