Enter your zip code. No signs announce the steamy riverside springs, but a paved road nearby provides easy access. Although this country bears little resemblance to Hawaii, the name Owyhee is in fact a 19th-century spelling of that distant tropical island's name. The Owyhee River and reservoir commemorate a pair of Hawaiian beaver trappers hired by early fur traders and killed here by Indians in 1819.
Nighthawks flit through the canyon's sky in the evenings.
201 to Nyssa. One mile beyond a Watchable Wildlife picnic area, take an unmarked dirt road down to the left a few hundred yards to the riverside hot springs. September and October are also nice. Avoid the blazing heat of July and August. Winter brings icy winds.