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Golden
Haven Spa
- Nestled in the heart of the Napa Valley, in the beautiful
town of Calistoga, Golden Haven Hot Springs makes the
perfect wine country getaway. Come and experience the
magic of the healing mineral waters and rejuvenating spa
treatments. After a day of touring the wine country, you
can swim in our warm mineral pool, relax on the sun deck,
and rejuvenate with Golden Havens famous spa treatments.
At Golden Haven couples can enjoy mud baths in private
treatment rooms. We also feature soothing massages, luxurious
herbal facials, and detoxifying European Body Wraps. Come
for the day or stay for the night in one our newly remodeled
rooms. Many have private kitchenettes, saunas or hot mineral
jauzzis. Families may prefer our two bedroom units that
accommodate up to four people. Come and see for yourself
why Conde Nest Traveler recently highlighted Golden Havens
Mud Bath treatments as a quintessential American
travel experience and why Travel and Leisure Magazine
in April 2007 concluded that Golden Haven Hot Springs
is one of the most professional and up-to-date" spas
in Calistoga. Special Internet package discounts are available
on our web site
Baths
at Roman Spa - Experience an authentic
Calistoga adventure ~ massage, mud & mineral baths.
Relax, rejuvenate, and pamper yourself at our on-site
Calistoga spa. Experience calming massages, soothing natural
baths and invigorating treatments for the ultimate mind
and body experience for both couples and individuals.
Experience your adventure side-by-side in our newly created
couple’s room. Calistoga is world renowned for its
natural geothermal waters and volcanic ash. Enjoy the
many therapeutic benefits of our mud & mineral baths.
Benefits include, muscle relaxation, exfoliation of the
skin, removal of toxins, and increased blood circulation.
Experience a mud or mineral bath prior to your massage
to reap the full benefits of a nurturing massage in the
skilled hands of our therapists. Visit our website to
view our full spa menu, spa treats, & monthly manager’s
special. (800) 404-4772.
Spa
Solage
- Named #2 Spa Resort in the U.S. by Travel + Leisure
Magazine. Health and wellness are at the heart of the
Solage experience. With 20,000 square-feet dedicated to
this purpose, Spa Solage offers a full array of relaxing
and invigorating services within its artfully designed
and environmentally conscious footprint. Rejuvenate yourself
with a soak in our geo-thermal mineral waters at our renowned
Bathhouse. Transforming the historic mud and healing water
traditions that made Calistoga famous, our signature Mudslide
treatment offers a three-part series – featuring
The Mud, The Waters and The Rest – guaranteed to
leave you silky, smooth and relaxed. You may also choose
from an array of facial, massage and body services offered
in our 14 soothing treatment rooms. We’ll ensure
your day at Spa Solage is restful and restorative. To
schedule your appontment
please visit our website or contact us at 707.226.0820.
Mount
View Hotel & Spa - Art of Relaxation
in everything we offer. The spa features massage, facials,
body treatments and hydrotherapy baths. The Mount View
Spa is a great get away for friends, couples or groups.
The Mount View Hotel & Spa is an eco-friendly member
of the Green Hotels Association and is ZAGAT rated in
the Top US Hotels, Resorts and Spas.

Just
north of Calistoga
Harbin
Hot Springs - One of the oldest and most
beautiful hot springs in California, Harbin Hot Springs
is now operated as a non-profit retreat and workshop center.
We are located north of San Francisco, above the Napa
Valley wine region. Guests travel here from around the
world to soak in the natural spring pools, receive massages
or our famous Watsu®, sun on the clothing-optional
decks, practice yoga, attend workshops, hike the hills,
or to simply relax in the embrace of nature.
Whose
idea was this?

It was the novelty of sitting in hot mud that first put
Calistoga on the map. Hot mud and even hotter salesmanship.
Although Native Americans and early Spanish settlers used
the area's natural hot springs, it took a fast-talking,
big-dreaming entrepreneur named Sam Brannan to turn geyser
water into gold.After making a fortune selling shovels
to prospectors during the Gold Rush, Brannan snapped up
the steaming geysers and hot marshlands at the northern
end of the Napa Valley with the idea of creating a resort
modeled on New York's famous Saratoga Hot Springs. Although
no records remain, local legend has it that Brannan was
the first to mix volcanic ash from nearby Mount St. Helena
with hot mineral water to concoct Calistoga's famous mud
baths. He opened his Hot Springs Hotel in 1860, promoting
it as the "Saratoga of California." One evening
over supper, apparently after amply enjoying the fruits
of his own nearby vineyards, he held forth on this theme
a bit too intensely, proclaiming, "I will make this
place the Calistoga of Sarafornia."

Calistoga stuck, and for 10 years Brannan's resort attracted
the likes of Leland Stanford, Robert Louis Stevenson,
and P. T. Barnum. In 1870, a divorce settlement put Brannan
out of business, and fire later razed most of the Hot
Springs Hotel. By the 1920s, other resorts offering mud
baths had been built, but it wasn't until the early 1950s
that Calistoga's reputation as a thermal destination really
began to grow. Today seven spas offer traditional mud
baths, and four others offer a variety of New Age treatments.
Mud
History

Calistoga and mud go way back - Mud baths
-- said to relax muscles, sooth aches, improve circulation
and smooth the skin -- have been a visitor staple in Calistoga
ever since Sam Brannan reined in the thermal springs at
the foot of Mount St. Helena and opened his Calistoga
Hot Springs Resort in the 1860s. Spa after spa followed;
today there are more than a dozen, making Calistoga the
most spa-ified town in the West. "In the natural
state, what we had around here was hot springs bubbling
up all around. When they put wells down for swimming pools,
it concentrated it, and the hot springs were lost,"
said John Merchant, whose Indian Springs Spa and Resort
stands on the site of Brannan's fashionable 19th century
watering hole.

Until rather recently, mud baths were promoted as an arthritis
treatment. They entail lying for 10 to 15 minutes in a
sarcophagus like tub filled with mud made from hot-spring
water mixed with volcanic ash, peat moss, clay or other
materials, depending on the spa.

"The mud bath is done in Japan, it's done in Europe
-- it's a very old procedure," Merchant said. "In
the 1930s and '40s, people with arthritis would come here,
take a mud bath every day and come away feeling healed."

Nowadays, mud baths are generally included in a larger
course of treatment aimed primarily at reducing stress
and promoting relaxation. Though it sounds, well, dirty,
mud baths actually are quite sanitary, spa operators say.
Brochures from the establishments that offer them explain
that mud in the tubs is pumped through with 212-degree
water and thoroughly raked between customers.

Indian Springs -- which locals persist in calling Pachita's,
after a previous owner -- remains the classic place to
go for "the works," followed by a swim in a
magnificent, 60-by-120-foot, geyser-heated swimming pool
dating from 1913.
The Sacramento Bee, May 18, 1997
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