Pah Tempe Hot Springs sits at the confluence of La Verkin Creek and the Virgin River, just downstream of the town of La Verkin. The springs are sulfurous, naturally warm, and have been used for at least a century — the Paiute name predates Anglo settlement, and the modern resort era opened and closed several times across the 20th century. What makes Pah Tempe a stub rather than a full page in this build is that current public access is unsettled. Ownership has changed hands; access has been opened and closed; and the relationship between the springs, the surrounding water rights, and the river-flow regulations downstream has been the subject of ongoing dispute.
What This Page Will Become
When the current access posture stabilizes — open to public soaking, closed entirely, or operating under a new resort model — this page will fill in with the standard water-recreation schema: hours, fees, address, what to bring, the historical layer. Until then it stands as a marker that the springs exist, that they are part of the 435’s water inventory, and that anyone planning a visit should verify the current access status with the property owner or with St. George News before driving up.
Pah Tempe Inside the 435
Pah Tempe is one of the only natural hot springs in Washington County and the only one at a Virgin-River confluence. Veyo Pool — covered separately — is the closest comparable water feature, but Veyo is spring-fed cool water rather than hot, and it is a developed swimming-pool operation rather than a natural soak. Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe is the closest natural hot-spring soak that 435 residents reference, and it is three hours north of St. George.