HEART & SOUL

HEART & SOUL

The Keeping of the Springs

by Paige Boucher, Inside | Out

A soak in the Old Town Hot Springs (OTHS) pools is always rejuvenating, but the experience can also be a journey through time and place when you consider where the water comes from and where it is going. Bathing or swimming in a natural hot spring beats soaking in a hot tub or spa. The water is filled with natural minerals and is constantly refreshed, bubbling up out of the earth through layers of rock and sediment, swirling through the pools, and then going on its path along a network of rivers to the Pacific Ocean.