COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It’s natural to dip into one of Colorado’s scenic, soothing hot springs and want to stick around. Fortunately, several destinations around the state offer overnight accommodations — from the expected to the unexpected.
Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort, Nathrop
Front and center is the lodge complete with modern spoils you’d expect at a hotel. Other options at this 70-acre resort just outside Buena Vista include cliffside rooms with a splendid view, other rooms nestled near the upper pools, suites overlooking the creek and cabins sleeping up to 10 people. Bonus perks of an overnight: discount spa treatments and complimentary cross-country ski, snowshoe and fat bike rentals.
Glenwood Hot Springs Resort, Glenwood Springs
The home to the proclaimed world’s largest hot springs pool is perfect for families, who also delight in slides and more restful soaking baths. Parents: check out the accommodation with two connecting rooms and four queen beds. The lodge also offers more intimate suites with bars, balconies and a jacuzzi tub. Only a few steps away, you might also look to the historic Hotel Colorado, built in 1893.
Desert Reef Hot Springs, Florence
For decades “a secret and protected refuge from the world,” as the website reads, Desert Reef is becoming better known. That’s thanks to new ownership and facelift renovations over the past few years. Quiet, carefree solitude is still the aim of capped reservations and rules that limit the clientele. For one, clothing is optional. Couples stay in Airstreams, tiny homes or their own vans.
The Springs Resort, Pagosa Springs
It’s the one made famous by Oprah. The legendary talk show host stayed in what is now the “O” Suite, among the luxury, high-class spaces here. Yes, you’ll have to be willing to...
