In Palm Springs, home to many hotel spas, the newly opened Spa at Sec-he is the only place in town where you can soak in the natural mineral hot spring's water.
As the water bubbles up from the large tub, I notice it leaves a glossy sheen on my skin. This isn’t like any other bath I’ve had before. The boiling mineral water I’m sitting in is what gave the city of Palm Springs its name — and the ancient water dates to the most recent ice age.In Palm Springs, home to many hotel spas, the recently opened Spa at Sec-he is the only place in town where you can soak in the natural mineral hot spring’s water.
It originates from the nearby San Jacinto Mountains, where ice melted and seeped into a reservoir 1.5 miles below ground. The earth then heats the water to a temperature as high as 180 degrees before pressure builds and pushes it back up to the surface at a rate of 26 gallons per minute.“Every year, there’s rain, and there’s kind of just a constant kind of continual flow and pressure,” Spencer says. “We’re kind of relying on the earth pressing it up for us.
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