The Miracle Healing Waters of Desert Hot Springs

        elcome to Desert Hot Springs, a beautiful and unique little city of spas and resorts nestled in the foothills of Joshua Tree National Park and just minutes from Palm Springs. Our city rests over two aquifers, one delivering the world's finest natural hot mineral water and the other provides the best naturally tasting award-winning municipal drinking water. Clean air, magnificent scenery and views of the Palms Springs valley below with easy access to world-class events and attractions.

Whether you're coming to play, relax or make Desert Hot Springs your home, you'll be won over by our friendly small-town atmosphere. Our hotels and spas offer an incredible variety of massages and treatments to soothe and rejuvenate with visitors from as far away as Europe and Asia seeking out our remarkable waters. For a wonderful weekend getaway or a beautiful place to live, you'll discover something special in Desert Hot Springs, California's spa city.

Europeans have flocked to hot mineral springs spas for centuries to experience the restorative and curative values of the mineral waters. The practice of "taking the waters" for therapeutic purposes is as popular today as it was in the days of the Roman baths. Within Desert Hot Springs exists one of the greatest thermal water areas in the world. These natural hot springs have been compared to the famous healing waters of Baden-Baden, Vichy and Evian. The very word "spa" means a place providing therapeutic mineral springs but while the number of spas continue to grow in the United States, very few offer the real nature of a spa... the healing restorative powers of the mineral water.

The health benefits of mineral-rich, hot springs have been well documented over the years. From early indigenous peoples to current day health enthusiasts, mineral waters around the world are famous for their healing attributes. While stress is relieved by the natural heat, the minerals absorbed through the skin rejuvenate the body. Used for years to relieve sore muscles and treat the stiffness that accompanies arthritis, the water in Desert Hot Springs is also especially rich in silica leaving the skin soft and smooth.
- The Cornell Study on the Spa market

"The mineral water here is some of the best in America..."
- Travel & Leisure Magazine 2001

"Every sickness, every disease, every ailment can be traced to a mineral deficiency."
- Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Laureate

"The analyses of the waters in Desert Hot Springs, I have not found the like in any country I have explored. What has surprised me most is the mineral content of the water. It is a pronounced curative agency. It would appear to have qualities far superior to any waters known to me. Desert Hot Springs could be an important health center."
- Dr. Broue, Australian geologist and physicist

"Take your minerals" was the old adage in the early part of the century. Minerals have been viewed as the key to heath and, in deficiency, the cause of many illnesses. The list of illnesses caused by mineral deficiencies is endless. From dry hair to arthritis to depression, lethargy, cancer, fibromyalgia, muscle pain, memory loss, weight gain, headaches, attention deficit disorder, loss of libido, cramps, and on and on.

However, in the United States, most of our water has been stripped of valuable minerals. Our water has been treated and processed and essentially turned into "white bread". Additionally we've viewed water with minerals as undesirable "hard" water and done our best to remove those minerals in favor of spotless glassware. As a result, our water is dead. We're drinking what is left after all the minerals have been processed and treated out. Our bodies need minerals. It is conceivable most Americans are suffering from some kind of mineral deficiency.

Voted the best Tasting Water... in the World!

The rich pools of water beneath Desert Hot Springs are both hot and cold. The hot mineral water comes from fissures in the earth and vary in temperature and mineral content.

The cold water in Desert Hot Springs is a separate aquifer but it is also high in minerals. This is the region's drinking water. There is absolutely nothing done to this water. Nothing is added and nothing is taken out. The water in Desert Hot Springs is consumed in its pure and natural state... just as it comes out of the earth. This is almost unprecedented in the United States.

Desert Hot Springs water is so delicious it has been voted "The Best Tasting in the World" in a large number of competitions, most recently by the International Water Tasting Competition in Berkley Springs, West Virginia.

Discover the miracle healing waters of Desert Hot Springs. We know you'll be glad you did!