Vichy Springs Resort
Ukiah (Mendocino County) · near Ukiah · North Coast
Swimming & Hot Springs
At a glance
- Temperature
- ~90°F carbonated baths · pool varies
- Cost
- Day use and lodging · Reservations recommended
- Season
- Year-round
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
- Safety
- Developed historic resort; standard spa etiquette. Clothing required.
Swimming & Hot Springs detail
- Type
- hot-spring
- Temp
- warm
- Clothing optional
- No
- Directions
- Vichy Springs Road, 3 miles east of Ukiah (Hwy 101), about 2 hours north of San Francisco.
- Pools
- The famous naturally carbonated 'champagne' baths — concrete tubs from the 1860s where the water fizzes on your skin — plus a hot soaking pool and Olympic-size swimming pool on a 700-acre historic property with waterfall hikes.
- Intl tip
- Ukiah is the gateway to Mendocino's inland wine country (Boonville and the Anderson Valley are 30–45 minutes west) and the coast beyond. Orr Hot Springs and the Montgomery Woods redwoods are up the same mountain road.
The guide
Vichy Springs, established in 1854, is California's oldest continuously operating mineral springs resort — and the only one in …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Vichy Springs Resort — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.162, -123.162