Chena Hot Springs Resort
Chena Hot Springs
Interior Alaska’s best-known hot spring resort, where you can soak in outdoor rock pools on winter nights under the northern lights, with your hair freezing into ice.
The resort lies at the end of the Chena River valley, about 95 km northeast of Fairbanks. Its outdoor rock hot spring pools are for adults only, and bathing takes place in winter, when temperatures drop to minus 20 to minus 30 degrees Celsius and hair frosts white. This is the most popular experience in aurora season. The resort also has a geothermal greenhouse, dog sledding, snowmobiling, and night aurora-viewing tours. You can drive the Chena Hot Springs Road for about 1.5 hours, or join a day tour or overnight package that includes transfers. Hot spring bathing requires a separate admission ticket, and in winter the icy roads call for careful driving.
Opening hours
Hot springs approx. 07:00–24:00
Nearby sights
- Aurora Ice Museum
- Angel Rocks Trail
- Chena Lakes Recreation Area
- Santa Claus House (North Pole)
- Trans-Alaska Pipeline Viewing Point
- Gold Dredge 8
- Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center
- Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum