Hot Springs

American  

noun

1. a city in central Arkansas: adjoins a national park Hot Springs National Park noted for its thermal mineral springs.

2. a resort village in W Virginia: site of international conference (forerunner of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) in 1943 to aid agricultural and food supply adjustments after World War II.

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Example Sentences

But before you can soak in Santa Barbara County’s highly popular Montecito Hot Springs, you’ll need to hike a little over a mile uphill, threading your way among boulders, oaks and a meandering creek.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

From the Hot Springs Canyon trailhead at East Mountain Drive and Riven Rock Road, it’s a 2.5-mile out-and-back trail to the hot springs, with about 800 feet of altitude gain on the way.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

I had hiked to Jordan Hot Springs and the burn scar of the 2002 McNally fire to probe big questions of fire ecology: Are Sierra forests overgrown?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

A 2,500-foot descent to Jordan Hot Springs, a spot in California’s High Sierra backcountry that has long had a hold on my imagination — an idyllic meadow with rock-dammed bathtub-hot pools.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

It was founded in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914, by rural and working- class Christians who believed that the Holy Spirit had moved them to speak in tongues.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times