Chena Hot Springs

Chena Hot Springs is a thermal mineral spring system in the Yukon-Tanana Plateau about 50 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Long used by Canadian First Nations peoples and Native Alaskans for healing and bathing, it later also served homesteaders and surveyors in remote Alaska during the early 20th century. The springs produce mineral-rich water that emerges at 153 °F and contains silica, sodium, iron, calcium, magnesium, sulfate, fluoride, lithium, and boric acid. Geologists have also found nearby yugawaralite, a rare quartz-encrusted zeolite. Today, the site is a developed hot-springs destination with soaking pools, a warm lake, an indoor pool, and geothermal-powered facilities.

Pleasant Valley, Alaska · United States