February 21, 2012

SandBox Comments: Denver Post "A Colorado Hot Springs soak is so much sweeter in private"

Douglas Brown:
"Hot springs? Yes, you swim laps at Glenwood Hot Springs every fall, and barrel down the long slide at Mount Princeton Hot Springs in Nathrop at least once a year. 


You soak in nature at Strawberry Park Hot Springs in Steamboat Springs, and one time, long ago, you waded au naturel at Orvis Hot Springs in Ridgway.


When it comes to Colorado hot springs, you get it. You've done it.


Yes?


No, soaker.


Every time you hit the springs, you swim with strangers: kids doing cannonballs into the swimming pools, bleary-eyed partiers slowly melting into the water, couples pinned together in a corner. You close your eyes, you toil to just sink into yourself, but then a Nerf ball bonks you in the head...."
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Best description of the reality of the GWS pool. Go private. It's cheaper and all that you want the experience to be.