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

A paved road was cut into the roadless area east of the Kern River giving automobile access to the five-mile John Jordan Hot Springs trail.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

One relic from this era is the Beverly Hot Springs, an artesian well once used by Native Americans that was rediscovered in 1910 when Richard S. Grant purchased the land as a wheat field.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

McCandless had told Westerberg that his destination was Saco Hot Springs, 240 miles to the east on U.S.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer