![]() There is a pool large enough for swimming that is fed from an artesian hot well, and several bathtub soaking pools. There are cabins at the hot springs available to rent, tent spaces and RV campsites. The natural hot mineral water emerges from one of the sources at 119 ☏ (48 ☌), and from an artesian well at 110 ☏. Later a campground and swimming pool was added. In the mid-1930s the hotel burned in a fire, and a bathhouse and restaurant was built to replace the hotel. Bourn built cabins and a hotel at the hot springs. In 1912, Mercy sold the property to Frederick Bourn, who was a real estate developer from San Francisco. It was a station on La Vereda del Monte used by the Five Joaquins Gang driving their horses southward to their hideout on the Arroyo de Cantua. This watering place was used by mesteneros as holding point for their captured mustangs. During the California Gold Rush it was known as the Aguaje Panochita. The springs were discovered by settlers on the Arroyo de Pannochita in 1848. Local native peoples introduced the springs to John Merci, a sheep herder and early European settler he later changed the spelling of his name to Mercy. Historically the hot springs were used by Native Americans. Mercey Hot Springs (formerly Mercy Hot Springs) is an unincorporated community and historical hot springs resort in the Little Panoche Valley of Fresno County, central California, about 60 miles (97 km) west-southwest of Fresno.
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