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Camping is only permitted in designated sites beyond this point, and fires are not permitted. There are several campsites just before this sign along the creek where fires are still permitted.
Friends and I backpacked and spent one night there. Pretty hike and not too hard, even carrying 30% of my bodyweight on my back. We were lucky enough to see bears on the way! People, who where on their way back, told us a Moose took a dip in the hot springs the day before, I’m glad I missed that.
Oh and the campsites are NOT far from hot springs.
I did this hike coming up East Maroon Creek and over Triangle Pass. Incredibly beautiful area, wild flowers and views. It was difficult but well wor....wait. No, this is terrible, don't come here. Way too many people, rabid ptarmigans everywhere, lightning regularly strikes the pool, some smelly hippy guy was ogling all of the visitors and kept trying to sell me Phish tickets. Glenwood Springs is much better.
Easy enough hike, and the hot springs were a perfect temperature to spend hours in! The permit is needed
I went in the summer, and it was a really beautiful hike up. We backpacked and stayed a night in one of the campsites, which requires a reservation a few months in advance. The hot springs will get crowded at night, but it's still a really cool experience any time of day. Great temperature and yes it's mucky at the bottom but it's an actual, primitive hot spring that's the point.
A lukewarm, slimy, gross hot spring. This was colossally disappointing to me because I had heard rave reviews about this place for decades and had dreamed about making it here. Clearly the temperature has declined substantially. You have to take an 18-mile round-trip trek to reach this slime hole. It was a beautiful hike, and the view at the top is lovely, but it’s not worth the two-day effort. I was putting maximum physical exertion into climbing this mountain all day long while imagining reaching the top and basking in the elation of soaking in a hot, clean spring, but it was bitterly disappointing to have worked so hard all day only to reach the top and to get in the tepid water and have big chunks of greenish slime float by me. It just goes to show you that some things on your bucket list will let you down.
