A Stunning Hot Spring Too Easy To Get To

[@JonConti]

Any questions for us about exploring Idaho or Kirkham Hot Springs? Leave it below!

[@mrs.gutierrez3781]

Hi Jon! What time of year was this video taken? May check it out in March unless there will be a ton of snow still.

[@skateranddancer]

Thanks! I just added this to my list and hope to go!

[@coreyostby4007]

Great job demonstrating the area.

[@JonConti]

Thanks Corey!

[@Yenko1992]

Cool I just went to Gold bug two days ago I'll have to go check out this one next

[@michelefelton4906]

Awesome video! I live in Michigan and I feel like I just took a little trip to some hot springs out west by watching this. Best hot springs footage I’ve ever seen in movies and other videos...Great job! Just subscribed! 😎

[@JonConti]

Michele Felton hey thanks a lot! Very cool to know we have a viewer in Michigan😀

[@mayinthehouse]

Haha, yep, the drive to or from Stanley always includes checking this place out but a kid seems to always be asleep or crying, I've always looked down there while driving and wished we could stop! Some day...thanks for the awesome video!

[@JonConti]

Someday! Kids might be tough down there depending on their ages. The rocks are slippery and the river is right there. Maybe stop for some you time Stephanie!😉

[@donpence7750]

Yes, stopped there a few times in my wild and crazy days. Swimsuits were optional back in the day as I remember. Love Idaho!

[@JonConti]

Don Pence haha! Ya Chad kept reminding people you need a swimsuit. I kept asking him why he was stating the obvious and he said something like “back in the day, not everyone wore swimsuits.” 😂

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

@@JonConti Even that mtn. spring in Bear Valley no one going in had any clothes on. Most Canadian springs that are well off the highway everyone is buck naked and from Europe!!!!

[@christopherrice8432]

Lovely video! Need to drop in there

[@JonConti]

Ya Chris, go check it out!

[@stacykessler9377]

Hey Jon - love your videos and can't wait to get to Idaho! If I wanted to visit a lot of hot springs on my trip to Idaho, what's the earliest in the year you'd recommend visiting? Will the rivers still be too high with spring runoff to enjoy many of the hot springs in June?? Thanks!

[@JonConti]

Hmmm.... Are you thinking hot springs like this? Because I can think of a hot springs loop out of boise that would take you to 7-9 and I'd actually do it in the winter. If you're going more hard core and want to try hiking 20 miles into the backcountry to find some that's a different story. I think for the casual hot springs seeker, time of year doesn't really matter. We have so many of these, we have more than Washington Oregon and Montana combined.

[@TheIdahoNate]

You’re right about stopping there on the way to or from Stanley. Round trips from Boise to Kirkham are quite the long trip.

[@JonConti]

Nate M I will say that the restaurant in banks added a killer little pub that’s open in peak seasons. It makes it more appealing for a day trip when that place is open.

[@johnnyanderson3024]

Is it a long time can't you just take a right after banks and then go past Terrace Lakes? Which route is faster I wonder?

[@JonConti]

Johnny Anderson You can get there by taking a right at banks then go past the turn for terrace lakes. Take a left at highway 21 and it will be on your right.

[@ColdPotato]

Sadly a couple days ago (Monday Jan 2nd 2023) we drove by and I think there were at least 35 vehicles parked there in two rows at the gate. Mind you this is the middle of winter with icy roads. A local there told me it wasn't like this until Covid hit and Idaho got flooded with people trying to get out of cities. The gate has been closed for years I bet to try to minimize visitors (after the place was trashed years back), but people have figured it out. We went last year and paid, I bet 90% of people don't...

[@briankgarland]

Just note, the rocks you have to traverse to get into the pools down by the river are pretty sketchy if you are elderly or have mobility issues.

[@JonConti]

Good to know!

[@johntatman9168]

Thanks for reminding everyone about no glass containers.

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

too close to the road. I've been to probably fifty hot springs in Canada and some USA. Very little trash of any kind is left in ANY Canadian spring, until Parks took over and brought in dumpsters. Bags of trash (and bears) were everywhere. Fortunately my buddy had a large RV coach and we removed a ton when we left. Parks experiment ended, and we were back to the pack in/pack out types again, and clean.

[@nickicunningham9679]

@6 or 7 of us would jump in a friends van and get up there about dark.. this was in the middle 70’s. Party & sit for awhile. Drive back to Boise. It wasn’t until 15 years later and saw it in the daytime and was amazed nobody killed themselves getting down there.

[@JonConti]

O wow haha. I mentioned in the written blog to not get caught there after sunset because you could get really hurt in the dark. That sounds awesome though! Was the parking lot and the little wooden viewing platform there back then?

[@nickicunningham9679]

The Adventures of Jon & Chad there was nothing there, very few people, no parking spots. There was less pools. But always a blast with good friends.

[@hilluhreekate]

Best spot for meteor showers though just saying.

[@JonConti]

@@hilluhreekate haha I bet, cuz it's so freaking dark down in that canyon!

[@rickhoward1516]

Me and my buddies would go up there just before dark and just go at night then camp in his vw camper van in the parking lot. Early 2000’s. No one would ever be there. Have not been back since but have driven by and people everywhere.

[@MeggiesMovies]

Omg I’ve been there too! Have you guys tried out the wine country in Idaho I think it’s Huston? Or there’s silverhawk aviation in Caldwell for helicopter rides over the owyhee mountains it is sooo coool

[@JonConti]

MeggiesMovies we haven’t done much with wine country. We did Lindsey Vineyards up in Lewiston, and we did a pound and pour class with Coiled wines. We did do a helicopter ride with silverhawk aviation but it was over Boise. Then we rafted the Owyhees. And all those videos are on here! That’s a good idea on wine country. Idaho has a lot of great food and wine experiences. So much to do, so little time 😀

[@MeggiesMovies]

The Adventures of Jon & Chad oh ya I saw the pound and pour video! Gotta check out the owyhee vid now 🕺

[@JonConti]

Are you from Idaho and now in NYC Meggie? We know a few Idaho to New York transplants we could put you in touch with if you're feeling home sick!

[@MeggiesMovies]

The Adventures of Jon & Chad thank you but quite the opposite! Moved to nyc from Virginia but hoping to one day move to Idaho (maybe start a brewery out there) in a few years. I am obsessed!

[@JonConti]

@@MeggiesMovies O damn! Well, let us know when you make it to Idaho! We do work for beer 😀

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

"nudity is prohibited in all areas of National Forest", uh, right. Interesting point about hot springs deep into the bush and current economics and politics. In Canada several relatively hard to get to springs seem to reflect the times. Sixties? No one had any clothes on. Eighties? Guys were still naked, ladies had bathing suits. Nineties? Harder times, not as many people. People had clothes on. 2000 Labor Day at Meagre Creek??? (Meagre Mtn. caved in; now closed; near Whistler) I was the ONLY one there. Felt like "Last Man on Earth".

[@JonConti]

Well this hot springs is right off the highway in 🇺🇸 so keep your pants on 🙂

[@ianpogue8980]

Just remember to always pick up trash when you are there, so many people have no respect for these beautiful places in Idaho:(

[@JonConti]

Yep, clean up after yourself. 👍

[@hb7030]

Make sure to blow up this spot even more. It is a shadow of what it used to be and overcrowding is causing the Forest Service to look into closing it for certain periods of the year.

[@ThorsteinnK]

Hey guys. I'm from Iceland, where we have a shit load of geothermal water to go around. Reykjavik, a city of 200.000 people has 16 public swimming pools, of course all with a nice selection of hot tubs and jacuzzis. When it domes to Nudity, Icelander's in general don't do that, but you have to shower with your gender without swimwear and clean yourself off properly before entering the pool to keep the chlorine to a mininum and the water quality excellent. Also, girls are allowed to be topless if they want to.

[@ThorsteinnK]

And yes, we do have a shit load of natural pools scattered throughout the country. I really feel for people that have never tried soaking in a warm river somewhere in the middle of nowhere...

[@JonConti]

Cool! Ya we’ve been to Iceland twice, such a beautiful place. Went for work the first time and it was so beautiful we took the family back for a second . 🍻