The Hot Sulphur Hot Springs is located along the Colorado River between the Rocky Mountain National Forest and the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in Grand County, Colorado. This hot springs boasts 21 mineral pools and baths at controlled temperatures of 95 to 112 degrees. The hot springs also offers accommodations that include rooms, cabins, apartments and massages.

The hot springs has seven natural springs sources that range in temperature between 104°F to 126°F, which provide over 200,000 gallons of natural hot mineral-rich water flow onto the resort. This hot springs resort does not add chemicals, filter or re-circulate any of the mineral water, but the water in the pools is pure geothermal mineral water.

Very nice resort, but a little pricey for a soak in their hot water. Clothing is required.

From IH 70, east or west bound, take exit 232, the Rocky Mtn Nat′l Park exit, and continue west on US 40 towards Empire/Grandby for 56 miles, passing through the towns of Winter Park, Fraiser, Granby and arriving in the town of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado. After driving through town, turn right on Park Stereet, drive one block north to Grand Avenue. Turn left, cross the Colorado River and continue on Spring Road across the railroad tracks to the Hot Sulphur Springs Resort.

Fifteen separate pools ranging from 98 to 112°

Eight of the 15 pools are for Children 11 and under,

Seven of the pools are for Adults only

By the early 1800s, Arapaho and Cheyenne, who were of the first migration on to this continent and the Sons of Jerah who′s settlement was to the east in the Great Plains, began hunting in the Wyoming Basic, continued to move southward into the Southern Rocky Mountains during the summer and came upon the hot waters of the Hot Sulphur Springs. They began to regularly make these hot pools a summer respite although they spent much of the remainder of the year on the Great Plains.

The first indigenous people to occupy the area near this hot water source were the Utes, who are part of the Uto-Aztecan language family, particularly, the Numic-speaking people in the tribes of the southern division families.

The Utes were hunter-gatherers who followed game herds and gathered berries, roots and other available plants, traveling throughout the Rocky Mountains. They hunted elk, deer, antelope, and bison and lived in portable or temporary dwellings such as tipis or wickiups. By about the 1500s the Utes had migrated into the mountains of Colorado and began camping along what is now known as the Colorado river. This is about when the Utes happened upon the hot waters along the east side of the gorge now known as Byers Canyon.

In the 1600s, after contact with Spanish explorers who began to create settlements to the south, the Utes acquired horses, which expanded their hunting and raiding territory. The Utes spent winters camped near the natural hot springs by present-day Hot Sulphur Springs, which they used to revitalize both body and spirit.

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