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After a busy day of skiing, mountain biking, hiking, canoeing, river rafting, rock climbing, horseback riding or even just riding in a car, there's no better place to chill out and soak your stiff or sore muscles than in one of Colorado's great hot spring pools. Whether you like it rustic or refined there's a pool for you.

Many of Colorado's geothermal wonders are located in remote spots, unimproved, and if you like, clothing-optional. But telling visitors how to get there can be a challenge. So let's stick with the ones that are accessible, family-friendly, and where there's at least a place for changing your clothes.

Glenwood Springs
Let's start with one of the biggest improved hot springs pools in the world. The Glenwood Springs Hot Springs Pool complex, three blocks long, includes swimming pools, a therapy pool, a diving pool, a kiddy pool and a waterslide. It's also the most heavily visited of the state's hot springs, busy even on the chilliest winter's day, sometimes packed in summer.

Though the Ute Indians enjoyed these springs for centuries, the first stone bath house was built in 1888 and still stands. European royalty, presidents and celebrities have enjoyed the pools, situated in this northwestern Colorado town in a scenic valley surrounded by mountains. The complex also includes locker rooms, an athletic club, snack bar and nearby hotel rooms (which are geothermal heated). The water is treated with an ozone purification system for one of the cleanest hot springs experiences you'll have anywhere.

Next door, at the Yampah Spa & Vapor Caves, you can enjoy a natural sauna in rock caves, or get a massage and other spa treatments.

Steamboat Springs
Getting to Strawberry Park Hot Springs north of the town of Steamboat Springs in northern Colorado requires a winding 7-mile drive, and is well worth the trip. Tucked into a river valley, the pools offer views of the rushing creek and steep canyon walls. The hot springs emerge at 146-150 degrees from the mountain cool off a bit by the time they hit each successive rock pool. There's camping on site and a few cabins. It's clothing-optional after dark only.

Visitors can change in the teepee on site; there is also bathhouse, and massages are available. There's also a hot springs-fed public pool in town.

Pagosa Springs
The hint of sulfur in the air is your first clue you're nearing Pagosa Springs. The faint odor fades, but the relaxing experience is just beginning. In recent years, improvements have made the hot spring pools here much more appealing, and worth a stop if you're in southwestern Colorado. Accommodations and amenities (such as massages) on site give you everything you need for a relaxing stay.

Idaho Springs
Because most of it is indoors, the Indian Springs Resort in Idaho Springs just west of Denver is a favorite stop for skiers on their way home after a weekend workout on the slopes. Spanning the banks of Soda Creek, the resort also offers rooms, dining and spa services. You can swim in the indoor mineral pool or rent a private tub. Outlaws and millionaires, miners and presidents took a break here.

Hot Sulphur Springs
The town and the resort, both named Hot Sulphur Springs, are located northwest of Winter Park and Granby, in north central Colorado. The springs, which had fallen into disrepair, were bought and refurbished in the 1990s. Now guests can choose from more than 20 pools, ranging from outdoor to a therapy pool, and one in a solarium. Rooms have also been upgraded, and spa services are now available. It's a quiet spot on the banks of the Colorado River.

Durango
Just north of the Four Corners town of Durango is a secluded hot springs resort abutting a sheer canyon wall. The Trimble Hot Springs is small by some standards, but a pleasant place to sit and look at the stars. And speaking of stars, one of its more famous visitors is reported to have been Marilyn Monroe. Whether you swim or soak, you'll walk away relaxed and refreshed.

Ouray
Nestle in a cup surrounded by snowy peaks, the hot springs in this Switzerland of America town in southwestern Colorado are especially welcome. From Ouray, there's nowhere to go but up, and it's often on foot. Weary hikers will find solace in the Ouray Hot Springs pool, where the public can partake of its soothing heat. They aren't fancy, but they do the trick. Several local hotels, such as the Wiesbaden and Box Canyon, also have private springs that come from the same source.

Nathrop
At the foot of the Collegiate Peaks in Colorado's central Rockies, you'll find the Mount Princeton Hot Springs. It's south of Buena Vista, west of Nathrop. There's a lodge and restaurant here, but what sets it apart is the possibility to soak in Chalk Creek itself. Slide into the hot spring on the edge while sticking your toes into the creek’s frigid waters flowing past, for an extraordinary hot-and-cold sensation. There also are several improved mineral pools and a bathhouse.

Salida
If you're looking for a hot spring pool more suited to kids than adults, check out the Salida Hot Springs Pool in central Colorado. The city pool has the usual amenities of a municipal facility, and because it's all indoors, you never have to worry about the weather. There's a wading pool, and all the pools have varying temperatures so you can find one that suits you.

Colorado is a state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Mountain States, the Western United States, and the Southwestern United States. The High Plains of eastern Colorado may be considered part of the Midwestern United States.

Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it was admitted to the Union as the 38th state in 1876, the centennial year of the United States Declaration of Independence. Colorado is bordered on the north by Wyoming and Nebraska, on the east by Nebraska and Kansas, on the south by Oklahoma and New Mexico, and on the west by Utah. The four states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at one common point known as the Four Corners. Colorado is one of only three U.S. states with no natural borders, the others being neighboring Wyoming and Utah.

Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, plains, mesas, and canyons. The 30 highest major summits of the Rocky Mountains of North America all lie within the state. Colorado is home to 4 national parks, 6 national monuments, 2 national recreation areas, 2 national historic sites, 3 national historic trails, 1 national scenic trail, 11 national forests, 2 national grasslands, 41 national wilderness areas, 2 national conservation areas, 8 national wildlife refuges, 44 state parks, 1 state forest, 323 state wildlife areas, and numerous other scenic, historic, and recreational attractions.

The United States Census Bureau estimates that the state population was 5,024,748 on July 1, 2009, an increase of 16.82% since the U.S. Census 2000. Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado. Residents of the state are properly known as "Coloradans", although the archaic term "Coloradoan" is still used

Nearly one third of the area of Colorado is flat or rolling land – in stark contrast to Colorado's rugged Rocky Mountains. East of the Rocky Mountains are the Colorado Eastern Plains of the High Plains, the section of the Great Plains within Colorado at elevations ranging from roughly 3,350 to 6,500 feet (1,020 to 2,000 m). The plains states of Kansas and Nebraska border Colorado to the east and northeast. The Colorado plains are usually thought of as prairies, but actually they have patches of deciduous forests. Eastern Colorado is presently mainly covered in farmland, along with small farming villages and towns. Precipitation is fair, averaging from 15 to 25 inches (380 to 630 mm) annually. The summers in the plains are usually hot and humid,[citation needed] while the winters are often quite cold, snowy, and icy. Corn, wheat, hay, soybeans, and oats are all typical crops, and most of the villages and towns in this region boast both a water tower and a grain elevator. As well as the farming of crops, Eastern Colorado has a good deal of livestock raising, such as at cattle ranches and hog farms. In eastern Colorado, a good deal of irrigation water is available from the South Platte, the Arkansas River, and a few other streams, and also from subterranean sources, including artesian wells. However, heavy use of ground water from wells for irrigation has caused underground water reserves to decline.

Most of Colorado's population resides along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in the Front Range Urban Corridor between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Pueblo, Colorado. This region is partially protected from prevailing storms that blow in from the Pacific Ocean region by the high Rockies in the middle of Colorado. The only other significant population centers are at Grand Junction and Durango in far western Colorado.

The Continental Divide dips down to 11,990 feet (3,655 m) at Loveland Pass.To the west of Great Plains of Colorado rises the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Notable peaks of the Rocky Mountains include Longs Peak, Mount Evans, Pikes Peak, and the Spanish Peaks near Walsenburg, Colorado, in southern Colorado. This area drains to the east and the southeast, ultimately either via the Mississippi River or the Rio Grande into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Continental Divide extends along the crest of the Rocky Mountains. The area of Colorado the west of the Continental Divide is called the Western Slope of Colorado. Drainage water west of the Continental Divide flows to the southwest via the Green River and the Colorado River into the Gulf of California.

Within the interior of the Rocky Mountains are several large so-called "parks" or high broad basins. In the north, on the east side of the Continental Divide is the North Park of Colorado. The North Park is drained by the North Platte River, which flows north into Wyoming and Nebraska. Just to the south of North Park, but on the western side of the Continental Divide, is the Middle Park of Colorado, which is drained by the Colorado River. The South Park of Colorado is the region of the headwaters of the South Platte River.

In southmost Colorado is the large San Luis Valley, where the headwaters of the Rio Grande are located. The Rio Grande drains due south into New Mexico, Mexico, and Texas. Across the Sangre de Cristo Range to the east of the San Luis Valley lies the Wet Mountain Valley. These basins, particularly the San Luis Valley, lie along the Rio Grande Rift, a major geological formation of the Rocky Mountains, and its branches.

The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain about 54 peaks that are 14,000 feet (4,267 m) or higher in elevation above sea level, known as fourteeners. These mountains are largely covered with trees such as conifers and aspens up to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,140 feet (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 feet (3,200 m) in northern Colorado. Above this only alpine vegetation grows. Only small parts of the Colorado Rockies are snow-covered year round. Much of the alpine snow melts by mid-August with the exception of a few snowcapped peaks and a few small glaciers. The Colorado Mineral Belt, stretching from the San Juan Mountains in the southwest to Boulder and Central City on the front range, contains most of the historic gold- and silver-mining districts of Colorado.

The Western Slope of Colorado is drained by the Colorado River and its tributaries (primarily the Green River and the San Juan River), or by evaporation in its arid areas. Prominent in the southwestern area of the Western Slope are the high San Juan Mountains, a rugged mountain range, and to the west of the San Juan Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, a high arid region that borders Southern Utah. The city of Grand Junction, Colorado, is the largest city on the Western Slope, Grand Junction and Durango are the only major centers of radio and television broadcasting, newspapers, and higher education on the Western Slope. The Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Western State College in Gunnison, and Fort Lewis College in Durango are the only four-year colleges in Colorado west of the Continental Divide.

August, 1964. Continental Divide at the top of Loveland PassGrand Junction is located along Interstate 70, the only major highway of Western Colorado. Grand Junction is also along the major railroad of the Western Slope, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, which also provides the tracks for AMTRAK's California Zephyr passenger train, which crosses the Rocky Mountains between Denver and Grand Junction via a route on which there are no continuous highways.

To the southeast of Grand Junction is the Grand Mesa, said to be the world's largest flat-topped mountain. Other towns of the Western Slope include Glenwood Springs with its resort hot springs, and the ski resorts of Aspen, Vail, Crested Butte, Steamboat Springs, and Telluride.

The northwestern corner of Colorado is a sparsely-populated region, and it contains part of the noted Dinosaur National Monument, which is not only a paleontological area, but is also a scenic area of high, rocky hills, canyons, and streambeads. Here, the Green River briefly crosses over into Colorado.

From west to east, the land of Colorado consists of semi-desert-like basins, turning into plateaus, then alpine mountains, National Forests, and then the relatively-flat grasslands and scattered forests of the Great Plains. The famous Pikes Peak is located just west of Colorado Springs. Its isolated peak is visible from nearly the Kansas border on clear days, and also far to the north and the south.

Colorado is one of four states in the United States that share a common geographic point the Four Corners, together with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. At this intersection, it is possible to stand in four states at once.

The climate of Colorado is quite complex compared to most of the United States. Unlike in other states, southern Colorado is not necessarily warmer than northern Colorado. Mountains and surrounding valleys greatly affect local climate. As a general rule, with an increase in elevation comes a decrease in temperature and an increase in precipitation. A main climatic division in Colorado occurs between the Rocky Mountains on the west and the plains on the east with the foothills forming a transitional zone between the two.

Center pivot irrigation of wheat growing in Yuma County.The climate of the Eastern Plains is semi-arid (Köppen climate classification BSk) with low humidity and moderate precipitation, usually from 15 to 25 inches (380 to 630 mm) annually. The area is known for its abundant sunshine and cool clear nights, which give this area the highest average diurnal temperature range in the United States[citation needed]. In summer, this area can have many days above 95 °F (35 °C) and sometimes 100 °F (38 °C),[14] although 105 °F (41 °C) is the maximum in the front range cities above 5,000 ft (1,500 m). In the plains, the winter extremes can be from 0 °F (-18 °C) to -10 °F (-23.3 °C) and -15 °F (-26.1 °C). The all time low in the area was -40 °F (-40.0 °C)[citation needed]. About 75% of the precipitation falls within the growing season, from April to September, but this area is very prone to droughts. Most of the precipitation comes from thunderstorms, which are often severe, and from major snowstorms that occur most often in the early spring, late autumn, and sometimes winter. Otherwise, winters tend to be mostly dry and cold. In much of the region, March and April are the snowiest months. April and May are normally the rainiest months, while April is the wettest month overall. The Front Range cities closer to the mountains tend to be warmer in the winter due to chinook winds which warm the area, sometimes bringing temperatures of 40 °F (4 °C) or higher in the winter.[14] The average July temperature is 55 °F (13 °C) in the morning and 80 °F (27 °C) in the afternoon. The average January temperature is 10 °F (-12 °C) in the morning and 30 °F (-1 °C) in the afternoon, although variation between consecutive days can be 40 °F (22 °C).

View of the Western Slope from Grand Junction.West of the plains and foothills, the weather of Colorado is much less uniform. Even places a few miles apart can experience entirely different weather depending on the topography of the area. Most valleys have a semi-arid climate, which becomes an alpine climate at higher elevations. Humid microclimates also exist in some areas. Generally, the wettest season in western Colorado is winter while June is the driest month. This is the opposite of precipitation patterns in the east. The mountains have cool summers with many days of high temperatures around 60 °F (16 °C) to 70 °F (21 °C), although frequent thunderstorms can cause sudden drops in temperature. Summer nights are cool or even cold at the highest elevations, which sometimes get snow even in the middle of the summer. The winters bring abundant, powdery snowfall to the mountains with abundant sunshine in between major storms. The western slope has high summer temperatures similar to those found on the plains, while the winters tend to be slightly cooler due to the lack of warming winds common to the plains and Front Range. Other areas in the west have their own unique climate. The San Luis Valley is generally dry with little rain or snow, although the snow that falls tends to stay on the ground all winter.

Extreme weather is a common occurrence in Colorado. Thunderstorms are common east of the Continental divide in the spring and summer, and Colorado is one of the leading states in deaths due to lightning. Hail is a common sight in the mountains east of the divide and in the northwest part of the state. The Eastern Plains have some of the biggest hail storms in North America. Also the Eastern Plains are part of Tornado Alley and produce some of the deadliest U.S. tornadoes. Some damaging tornadoes in the Eastern Plains include the 1990 Limon F3 tornado and the 2008 Windsor EF3 tornado, which devastated the town. The plains are also susceptible to floods, which are caused both by thunderstorms and by the rapid melting of snow in the mountains during warm weather. Denver's record in 1921 for the number of consecutive days above 90 °F (32 °C) was broken during the summer of 2008. The new record of twenty-four consecutive days surpassed the previous record by almost a week. Much of Colorado is a relatively dry state averaging only 17 inches (430 mm) of rain per year statewide and rarely experiences a time when some portion of the state is not in some degree of drought.[17] The lack of precipitation contributes to the severity of wildfires in the state such as the Hayman Fire, one of the largest wildfires in American history.

However, there are some of the mountainous regions of Colorado which receive a huge amount of moisture via winter snowfalls. The spring melts of these snows often cause great waterflows in such rivers as the Yampa River, the Grand River, the Colorado River, the Rio Grande, the Arkansas River, Cherry Creek, the North Platte River, and the South Platte River. Water flowing out of the Colorado Rocky Mountains is a very significant source of water for the farms, towns, and cities of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, southmost Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, and northmost Mexico.

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