3 hot springs
San Luis Potosí has 3 hot springs with their own page on Puebloteca, near the Pueblo Mágico of Santa María del Río. The closest to a pueblo is Balneario La Noria, 6 km from Santa María del Río; the farthest out is Parque Nacional Gogorrón, 23 km from Santa María del Río.
Most hot springs in Mexico are balnearios: family water parks built around a warm spring, with pools, slides and often camping or cabins. They fill up on weekends and holidays, so a weekday is much calmer.
Best months, when most of these towns are dry with comfortable afternoons: Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov.
The Hot Springs 3
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Balneario La Noria · Hot springs · 6 km from Santa María del Río
A family thermal pool in Ojo Caliente, the hot-spring village just north of Santa María del Río. -
Balneario de Lourdes · Hot springs · 12 km from Santa María del Río
A thermal spa and country hotel on a former hacienda, around warm, slightly sulfurous springs found in 1890. -
Parque Nacional Gogorrón · Hot springs · 23 km from Santa María del Río
A national park of rocky hills and thermal springs, with an ejido-run resort of warm pools on the grounds of an old hacienda.
On the map
Distances are in a straight line; roads add about a third.
Where to stay
The Pueblos Mágicos these places are closest to, each with hotels, food and getting-there notes.
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Names and locations from OpenStreetMap; notes and write-ups are our own.