The 10 Best Hot Springs in Oregon

Travertine pools dug into a bluff 150 feet above the North Umpqua — the most spectacular natural soak in the state. Short steep walk, $5, and a winter version that means earning it on a gated road.

Two 1940s concrete pools staring across the Alvord playa at Steens Mountain, under lower-48-dark night sky. Private, roughly $15–20 cash, gravel-road remote.

Terwilliger's four terraced pools step down a fern ravine from 112°F to 85°F — pick your temperature by picking your pool. Capacity-capped, alcohol-free, closed Thursday mornings for cleaning.

Cedar bathhouses and hand-hewn log flumes in old-growth, reached by a three-mile forest walk: Bagby is the classic Oregon soak, $5 at the fee tube, rebuilt and open after years of fire closure.

The reservation-only retreat: tempered meadow pools, spiral tubs, a steam sauna over a capped geyser, and enforced quiet. Day passes ($40–50 in 2026) sell out weeks ahead.

Crystal Crane's swimmable third-of-a-million-gallon pond holds soaking temperature all year — the family-friendly pick, with private cedar tubs when you want the quiet version.

The most accessible wild soak in the Cascades: rock pools two minutes off Highway 58, temperature set by whoever moved the rocks last. Best in low-water fall; skip spring runoff.

A walled 104°F pool deep in Hart Mountain's antelope refuge — free, first-come camping a hundred yards away, and the emptiest sky in this list. Bring water, fuel, and self-sufficiency.

Belknap's garden resort pools on the McKenzie are the gentle entry point: $12 for an hour, swimsuits on, kids five and up, open every day of the year.

Dig-your-own shoreline pools inside the Newberry Caldera, where 176°F seeps meet cold lake water — a late-summer-only, bring-a-shovel volcano soak.