Any Questions?

Dr. Wilkinson's Spa is for guests 18 years and older only.

Along with a booked treatment, Day Guests receive up to two hours access to our Spa Mineral Pool and Spa Garden (No access to the Hotel Mineral Pools).

We require a credit card to book all Spa Treatments.

Treatments made in advance require a credit card guarantee. The full treatment price will be charged if the reservation is NOT cancelled 24 hours in advance (72 hours for groups of 6 or more). Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your scheduled treatment time. Please note, treatment times start at the reserved times. Late arrivals will receive the time left of their treatment with a full charge being applied. 

We ask that you arrive 15 minutes prior to your booked treatment time. Late arrivals will receive the remaining amount of time left in their treatment.

No photography or use of cell phones or electronics are allowed in the Spa, Spa Garden, or Spa Pool area.

8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. 

Our prenatal massage is available to guests who are in their 2nd or 3rd trimester only. 

We do not provide Mud Baths to guests who are pregnant. We do however offer a Mother's to be Soak which has a lower water temperature and is safer for both of you. 

Facials are safe for any trimester of pregnancy.

We do not recommend our Steam Sauna or Spa Mineral Pool for guests who are pregnant.

Please ask for suggestions of treatments created for you during your pregnancy.            

Yes, mud baths are sanitary. Our hygienic mud baths require careful and thoughtful preparation, and utilize scalding hot mineral water which acts as a sanitizer. The alkaline in Calistoga’s unique combination of volcanic ash, peat moss, and mineral water works to kill bacteria. Fresh mud is also added over time and flushed with 180 degree mineral water. Your health and safety are our utmost priority and a clean environment is paramount to our guest experience.  

During your mud bath treatment, you will immerse yourself in the mud for 15 minutes, but that is just part of the entire experience. Your spa attendant will guide you through the process and advise how long you should soak in your mud bath. 

Mud baths contain a high amount of sulfur, which can sometimes smell strongly, but mud bath smell is an indicator of the important essential minerals contained in the mud which treat the body.  

Most guests opt to not wear anything and be naked during a mud bath treatment in order to allow all of the body’s skin to reap the benefits of the mud’s minerals. However, you can absolutely wear a bathing suit, though be aware that volcanic ash can stain garments. Your spa attendant will assist you throughout the treatment so that your privacy is respected and you are comfortable entering and exiting the mud bath. 

Yes, mud baths are extremely good for your skin. Due to the high temperature of a mud bath, the heat draws out toxins and impurities in the skin, opening the pores, absorbing oils, and encouraging circulation. Mud baths also have anti-inflammatory properties and exfoliate dead skin cells, leaving you with soft, detoxified skin.  

Our mineral pools draw their water from our natural underground hot spring on property. These healing waters contain minerals like sulfur, zinc, magnesium, calcium, and bromine that have numerous benefits for the skin, muscles, and body.  

Yes, there are underground hot springs in Calistoga. The area is world-renowned for its hot springs, local charm, and wineries. Dr. Wilkinson’s hot springs hotel features three mineral pools that draw water from its underground hot spring on property.  

Calistoga hot springs are heated geothermally - meaning heat from the earth underground. These geothermal forces and tectonic activity within the earth raises the temperature of our mineral pools up to 104 degrees, though the waters are much hotter at the source. How are the mineral pools heated 

Dr. Wilkinson’s three mineral pools draw mineral water from the resort’s underground natural hot spring. The hot spring is 100% geothermally heated - forces deep within the earth raise the temperature of the waters naturally - and that water is funneled into the mineral pools at a temperature of up to 104 degrees. The heated mineral pools, all set to different warm temperatures, make for amazing, therapeutic soaks year-round. 

Geothermal steam is steam created by the very hot water in our natural hot spring under the earth’s surface. The steam is piped into our spa for use in our steam room and mud bath treatments and features the same mineral-rich, therapeutic properties of our mineral waters. 

Hydrotherapy refers to treatments that use water to treat the body. Our hydrotherapy experiences and treatments include soaks in our mineral pools, mineral bath treatments, and steam room. All of our hydrotherapy offerings use the healing mineral waters drawn from our natural underground hot spring. Hydrotherapy has been used to treat joints, erase body aches, cure and treat the skin, improve circulation, and relax and sooth sore muscles. Hydrotherapy has been used by spas, wellness practitioners, and doctors since the beginning of recorded history. 

Yes, Dr. Wilkinson's Spa and Baths offers Couples Treatments for Mud Baths, Mineral Baths, Massages and Body Treatments. Please contact our Spa to ensure your requested time and treatments are available for a Couples Experience.

We offer CBD oil and cream enhancements for our mineral bath treatments or massages. CBD oil and cream offers great benefits to the body and mind without mind-altering effects. Some of the benefits of CBD oil include pain relief, reduced anxiety, increased relaxation, and may reduce inflammation. 

Epsom salts are natural mineral salts that contain magnesium, sulfur and oxygen. Epsom salts are also known as magnesium sulfate, and is different from table salt as it is not suitable for cooking. The benefits of epsom salts are reaped when added to a warm mineral bath. The benefits of epsom salts include pain relief, stress reduction, relaxation, soothed sore muscles, lower blood pressure, and reduced swelling in the body.  

The Balneology Association of North America (BANA), the authority of therapeutic bathing and medicinal springs, has classified our natural mineral waters as distinctive, neutralizing, proven to strengthen skin, balance and reset stressed nervous systems, hydrate, and detoxify.

The health benefits of mud baths are plentiful. Mud baths exfoliate dead skin, treat skin conditions, treat muscle and joint pain, increase circulation, detoxify the body, draw out skin impurities, and increase relaxation.