Pagosa Springs, CO

Pag O0 SAh means healing waters in the indian language.  We found a great rv park and it is the first one that supplied an internet connection that worked.  The world's longest, largest hot springs is located here and it was featured in one show by Oprah in her across America series.   We walked along the river in town and the river flowed right past our park too. 

This is the San Juan River going past the hot springs spa area.  You can see the blue sun umbrellas around all the individual hot spring pools.  You could also go in the river which was quite a temperature shock!

You could walk through a hot spring on this bridge.

There were lots of goldfish in the water and the bridge led up to another hot spring pool you could sit in.

It was a pretty walk along the river.

This is the original hot spring in front of the hotel/spa.  It is much too hot to even try to enter.  It's app. 145 degrees!

  There was a nice walking path along the river in town.

 I loved these small mountains of minerals that are deposited as the hot water bubbles out of the ground.  They were quite colorful.

Rafters came down the river here.  The rapids are not that dangerous and it looked like a lot of fun.

Hot stone rub anyone?

Dale and I enjoyed many of the pools and tried to stay around 107 degrees.

Water was constantly being added to the pools and drained off into the river.  It must have been difficult to keep the temperature even.  A pool man told me they have to adjust the amount of hot spring water and add water from a hose to cool it off.

 You can see people in the hot springs behind this pic.

Minerals are deposited as water flows up and out of the earth.  There are mineral "mountains" like this in several areas.

You can't beat the view from your pool.

This is the original hot springs which is 145 degrees.  It was a pretty shade of turquoise and colorful mineral deposits around the edges.

This is the view of the spa from the river.

We had a nice RV park site along the San Juan River.