Wilbur Hot Springs
Williams (Colusa County) · near Williams · North Coast
Swimming & Hot Springs
At a glance
- Temperature
- 100–109°F
- Cost
- Day use and overnight by reservation · Solar-powered, off-grid sanctuary
- Season
- Year-round
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
- Safety
- Off-grid and phone-free by design. The hottest flume approaches 109°F — soak progressively.
Swimming & Hot Springs detail
- Type
- hot-spring
- Temp
- hot
- Clothing optional
- Yes
- Directions
- About 2.5 hours from San Francisco, west of Williams (I-5) via Hwy 20 and Bear Valley Road into the Coast Range hills. Reservations required.
- Pools
- Three long Japanese-style flumes at ~100°F, ~105°F, and ~109°F under an open-air pagoda, plus a spring-fed swimming pool, outdoor mineral flume, dry sauna, and cold plunge — set in an 1,800-acre private nature preserve.
- Intl tip
- The drive in through Bear Valley is a wildflower spectacle in spring. Wilbur pairs with Cache Creek country (the rivers guide's namesake find) — this is the same quiet Coast Range corner most Californians never see.
The guide
Wilbur is the connoisseur's quiet one — a solar-powered, off-grid sanctuary in an 1,800-acre Coast Range nature preserve, where…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Wilbur Hot Springs — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.038, -122.421