Virginia has at least 3 documented hot springs, all in historic Bath County in the Allegheny Mountains. 1 is free and 2 are paid resort sites. The Warm Springs Pools, known as the Jefferson Pools, and The Omni Homestead Resort are the best known, both built around warm mineral water that has drawn bathers to the towns of Warm Springs and Hot Springs since the 1700s.
Every documented hot spring sits in Bath County, a small Allegheny Mountain area built around warm mineral water. Warm Springs Pools, the historic Jefferson Pools, and The Omni Homestead Resort anchor the towns of Warm Springs and Hot Springs a few miles apart.
Just south, Healing Springs adds another warm mineral source near Hot Springs, part of the same geothermal belt that gave the towns their names. The springs rise along the western edge of Virginia near the West Virginia line.
This Bath County cluster is Virginia's only hot springs area, a compact historic spa district rather than the scattered wild soaks of the western states, and one of the oldest documented spa destinations among the hot springs in Virginia and the eastern United States.
Virginia offers some of the oldest spa history in the country rather than wild backcountry soaking. The Jefferson Pools date to the 1700s, with a wooden bathhouse that Thomas Jefferson is said to have visited, and The Omni Homestead has operated as a grand resort for more than two centuries. The warm mineral water holds a steady temperature year-round, and the compact Bath County setting makes a visit feel like stepping into early American spa tradition.
Highlights are drawn from the hot springs documented in this directory. All sit in historic Bath County, and others may exist nearby.
Historic Jefferson Pools: Warm Springs Pools in Warm Springs are the historic Jefferson Pools, octagonal wooden bathhouses over warm mineral springs, among the oldest documented spa structures in our records in the country.
Grand historic resort: The Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs has operated as a grand mineral-spring resort for more than two centuries, with a spa, pools, and golf in the Allegheny Mountains.
Warm mineral source: Healing Springs near Hot Springs is a warm mineral source in the same Bath County geothermal belt, long tied to the area's spa history.
