Berkeley Springs State Park

The oldest spa in the United States — warm mineral springs bathed in by George Washington, still running in a small public park.

Photo: Andrew Bossi, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5)

源泉温度: 23°C
入浴温度: 23°C
入浴: 内湯 / 露天
創業: 1776

The springs at Bath, West Virginia — universally called Berkeley Springs — were used by Native peoples and then by colonial visitors including George Washington, who bathed here in 1748. The town was chartered as a spa in 1776, and the springs now sit inside a small state park with Roman-style bathhouse tubs and an outdoor pool.

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訪ねる理由

The water is warm rather than hot, and the appeal is historical: a public spring, a stone tub said to be Washington's bath, and an American spa town that never became grand.