McCredie Springs


McCredie Springs are hot springs within the Willamette National Forest in Lane County, Oregon. It is located near Oregon Route 58, about east of Oakridge, and east of Eugene.
The hot springs are located at, on the other side of OR 58 from McCredie Springs, by the banks of Salt Creek.
The springs were first discovered by a trapper named Frank Warner who settled near them in 1878. He lived there until the Forest Service was established in 1905 and removed him from his land. In 1911 a developer from Eugene, John Hardin, filed a mineral claim on the land. The mineral claim allowed him to lease land from the Forest Service, and he used that lease to construct a two-story resort hotel in 1914. A baseball player from Portland, William "Judge" McCredie, took over the lease in 1916 and operated the resort as a baseball camp. Although the resort changed ownership several times over the next several decades, the name "McCredie Springs" stuck. During its heyday in the 1930s, the resort was served by five Southern Pacific passenger trains each day.
The hotel burned to the ground in 1958 and a 1964 flood destroyed the bridge that provided access to the springs. The Forest Service cancelled the lease and razed the remaining buildings. Today, the site remains mostly natural.

Water profile

The geothermally heated mineral water emerges from the ground at per minute at a temperature of. The mineral content includes: sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, aluminum, silicon dioxide, boron, lithium, bicarbonate, sulfate, clorine, florine.