Early on a recent spring morning, half a dozen people lounged around Umpqua Hot Springs’ turquoise pools, chatting quietly as a faint mist held onto the treetops in the dense evergreen forest. The ...

You can spot the puffs of steam about a hundred yards up the trail from Idaho’s Jerry Johnson Hot Springs, the kind of ethereal gray mist that might engulf a fantasy movie dragon or wizard. Hikers and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hot springs have long been a major draw to Pagosa Springs, a small southwestern town in the shadow of the San Juan Mountains. Hundreds of years ago, the ...