Hot springs near Missoula spread along three corridors: west on US-12 through the Bitterroot Range, south on US-93 into the Bitterroot Valley, and northwest along the Clark Fork River toward the Flathead Reservation. Lolo Hot Springs, 37 miles west on Highway 12, is the closest developed resort and sits on a site used by Indigenous peoples and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Quinn's Hot Springs Resort, about 70 miles northwest in a Clark Fork River canyon on Highway 135, has seven pools from 90 to 106 degrees with no chemical treatment. Sleeping Child Hot Springs is a private lodge rental near Hamilton, approximately 65 miles south via US-93. The town of Hot Springs on the Flathead Reservation, roughly 75 miles northwest, holds three separate springs: Symes Hot Springs Hotel, Big Medicine Hot Springs, and Camas Hot Springs, all within walking distance.
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