Big Bend Hot Springs Project - Shasta County, California
Big Bend Hot Springs is located in the town of Big Bend, in northern California. The site has extraordinary geothermal springs and wells and is on the Pit River between two volcanoes, Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak. Big Bend Hot Springs is in a big transition phase, so please stay tuned and thanks for your patience!
Important News:
- Big Bend Hot Springs is currently CLOSED until further notice. We are working hard on the process of completing a huge list of Shasta County-required permits, repairs, and code upgrades.
- Spring 2012 UPDATE: We are preparing to submit building plans to the county for a new soaking pool area (wheel-chair accessible), caretaker's residence, yoga building, new footbridge, a greenhouse, improved roads and parking, and a new water system. The Shasta County Planning Commission has granted us our conditional Use Permit, so we are now allowed to apply for building permits! We are now required to complete most of the campground, hot tub, and water system improvements before we can open to the public.
- Progress from the past three years: Our first building- a restroom and shower complex- is completed, and has a 2000 gallon septic system and a new potable cold water well. Our Master Plan has been evolving, and Phase One has been submitted to Shasta County, which led to the Shasta Planning Commission granting us our conditional Commercial-Recreational Use Permit. Much work has been done to remove illegal structures, prevent erosion, identify and catalog living organisms, improve habitat for plants, animals, and fungi, repair paths and roads, care for gardens and orchards, create new hiking trails, and establish relationships with local Pit River Nation Indians and other community members.
- The "Big Bend Hot Springs Project" (BBHSP), a not-for-profit group, (including local community members and a large network of allies) are stewarding the land in the most humble and gentle ways we have learned.
- BBHSP is run by an inclusive group of stewards who see this as a community
project. Representatives of BBHSP and members of the Big Bend community
are now beginning the gradual work of healing all relations and bringing the special unique property
back to its full potential. Please send us your ideas.
1. To preserve and protect this sacred land and the water resources as a natural area and wildlife sanctuary.
2. To re-open the small-scale public camping and soaking business (closed since 2006).
3. To develop a model sustainable permaculture facility with geothermally heated greenhouses to grow food.
4. To honor the ancestors, and work with 2012 descendants of the Madesi band of Pit River Indians, who once lived here.
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Questions? Email Us: info [at] bigbendhotsprings.org
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