Riverbend Hot Springs

Riverbend Hot Springs sits at 100 Austin Street on the banks of the Rio Grande in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The property began as a riverside bait shop before Lee and Sylvia Foerstner bought it in 1988 and opened a youth hostel with riverside hot baths in 1990; when their son accidentally drained the minnow tanks, Lee drilled a well to replace the water and struck 109°F (43°C) natural mineral water from the aquifer beneath the town, launching what became Riverbend Hot Springs. Today the resort holds commercial water rights to that same natural hot springs aquifer — the same source that gave Truth or Consequences (originally named Hot Springs) its identity — and offers a mix of private riverside tubs and communal pools fed by the 109°F source water.