Utah has at least 20 documented hot springs, most of them free wild soaks with a handful of developed resorts. 12 are free and 8 are paid resorts or managed pools. Meadow Hot Springs near Fillmore and Fifth Water Hot Springs near Spanish Fork are two of the most popular, both free soaks reached by a short walk or a forest hike along the Wasatch front.
Central Utah holds many of the best-known soaks, from the free desert pools of Meadow Hot Springs near Fillmore to the Richfield group, where Mystic Hot Springs, Monroe Hot Springs Resort, and Red Hill Hot Springs cluster in the Sevier Valley.
The Wasatch front near Provo and Salt Lake City adds popular hikes such as Fifth Water Hot Springs in Diamond Fork canyon and the submerged Homestead Crater at Midway, a warm dome you can soak or dive in. Saratoga Springs on Utah Lake adds free lakeside pools.
Northern Utah around Brigham City and Tremonton holds developed pools like Crystal Hot Springs and Belmont Hot Springs, while the western desert near Delta hides remote free soaks such as Baker Hot Springs among the wild hot springs in Utah.
Utah pairs easy free desert soaks with unusual developed sites like the Homestead Crater, a warm limestone dome you enter through a tunnel to soak or scuba dive. Many wild pools sit a short walk or an easy hike from Wasatch front cities, making them some of the most accessible free soaks in the West. High desert elevation keeps summers mild at the mountain sites, and winter soaking under snow draws crowds to the roadside pools.
Highlights are drawn from the hot springs documented in this directory. Others may exist across Utah's remote desert and mountain backcountry.
Free desert soaking pools: Meadow Hot Springs near Fillmore offers free deep clear soaking pools in an open pasture, among the most visited documented free soaks in our records in central Utah.
Diamond Fork canyon hike: Fifth Water Hot Springs near Spanish Fork rewards a 2.5-mile trail with terraced blue-green pools and a waterfall in the Wasatch, one of the state's busiest wild soaks.
Submerged warm crater: Homestead Crater at Midway is a warm limestone dome entered by tunnel, the only documented crater you can both soak and scuba dive in within the state.
Hippie resort tubs: Mystic Hot Springs near Richfield sets old cast-iron bathtubs and travertine pools on a hillside, a quirky resort and music venue in the Sevier Valley.
Large northern pools: Crystal Hot Springs near Brigham City pairs hot mineral pools with cold spring water for a wide temperature range, a developed family complex in northern Utah.
Remote desert soak: Baker Hot Springs near Delta is a free primitive set of pools in the west desert, reached by dirt roads far from any town.
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