Sespe Hot Springs, called S'eqp'e' in Chumash, is a remote group of thermal springs and seeps in the mountains near Ojai within Los Padres National Forest. For centuries, local Indigenous people valued the site for warmth and healing. Hot mineral water rises through multiple spring clusters, seeps, and stream-bed sources, then flows into primitive rock-lined pools and along a creek where mixing with cooler water creates varied bathing temperatures. The water is extremely hot at its source, with recorded temperatures of 191 °F in 1915 and 194 °F in 2008. Reached only by foot or horseback, the secluded springs remain a distinctive geothermal site in the Sespe Wilderness.