Grover Hot Springs State Park lies on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada near Markleeville, where the northern Sierra meets the Great Basin. Established in 1959, the 553-acre park centers on six natural mineral springs long valued by the Washoe people for their health and spiritual importance and known in Washo as dih-teh-ee lo-om. The park takes its name from Alvin Merrill Grover, who in 1878 owned part of the land and built a bathhouse and fence around the springs. Its landscape reflects both ice-age glacial shaping and geothermal forces, and today it combines spring-fed soaking, camping, trails, and mountain habitat.