GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo — A Colorado hot springs pool that has been delighting visitors since 1888 has completed a new expansion project. Glenwood Hot Springs Resort opened its new east end expansion project on Friday at the start of the Memorial Day weekend. The new Yampah Mineral Baths includes five new swimming pools, a shade pergola and a outdoor lounging area with fireplace.
The expansion project has also reopened the resort's drinking spring. The new area features a hot plunge and a cold plunge pool, an infinity edge pool, a grotto-like pool with a waterfall, and another pool with a waterfall. Yampah Mineral Baths will be open to all ages throughout the day and will be adult-only after 5 p.
m. No reservations will be needed to access the new Yampah Mineral Baths as guests can come and go as they please throughout the day. The new swimming areas vary in temperature and are sourced from its Yampa Source Spring.
The new pools range in temperature from 52 to 60 degrees in the Inhale cold water therapy pool to 100 to 104 degrees in the warmer Cascade Waters. The Ute people were some of the earliest discoverers of this therapeutic hot spring and named it Yampah, meaning “big medicine.” Yampah Source Spring provides Glenwood Hot Springs Resort with a continuous flow of 122-degree water.
Credit: Glenwood Hot Springs “We are thrilled to unveil Yampah Mineral Baths just in time for the summer season. This new area is designed to be a meditative place to soak in the warm geo.
