The hot springs are part of the geothermal activity of the Coso Volcanic Field.

[3] The springs were a traditional Native American cultural and healing ritual site of the Coso people, and later the Northern Paiute and Timbisha.

Contemporary local Native American people periodically have ceremonies at the springs.

[5] The areas known as Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons by the hot springs have over 20,000 remarkably undisturbed images in a distinctive so-called Coso style.

This article about a property in Inyo County, California on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.