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🇳🇿 New Zealand · Lewis Pass, South Island
♨ Temperature
56°C
⛰ Altitude
586 m
⚗ pH
7.3
💧 TDS
—
🌊 Flow rate
—
📅 Established
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✓ Verified on 2026-07-28
Maruia Hot Springs sits beside the Maruia River at Lewis Pass in the South Island's Southern Alps, on land long used by Māori — its name means shelter, haven or comfortable place. The springs have been used for hundreds of years, including as a rest stop for Māori pounamu (jade) traders, and European settlers built rustic huts here in the late 1800s before it gradually grew into a hotel. The operator states the spring water is a sulphur spring with a pH of 7.3 and an average source temperature of 56°C, piped to a hotel, a Japanese-style bathhouse, private spas and rock pools. The property was extensively renovated after a change of ownership in 2015.
Māori used the area around Maruia for hundreds of years, including as a resting point along a pounamu (jade) trading route; the name Maruia means shelter, haven or comfortable place. European settlers built simple huts here in the late 1800s, and the site gradually developed into a hotel over the following century.
The springs are used today through a mix of a Japanese-style bathhouse, private spas and rock pools, combining historical Māori use of the site with a later Japanese-influenced bathing concept introduced by the resort.
Websitewww.maruiahotsprings.nz
Address1513 State Highway 7, Lewis Pass 7847, Maruia Springs, South Island, New Zealand