A Natural Hot Spring

We went camping with friends at Childs Power Plant up by the Verde Hot Springs and Fossil Creek. There were all kinds of incredible things in this small area. Fossil Creek will have to have its own post.

From where we were camping we had a short hike to get to the hot springs. We had to walk across the Verde River which was 100% not Verde (green for those that don’t speak spanish)

It was more a cloudy brown. Knowing I had to walk through very opaque water and not knowing the depth, whats in the water and so on I get those wonderful thoughts of ‘What is going to grab me, eat me, spit my bones out, drag me down the river. ‘

I survived! Surprise! Right? I mean – You are here reading this and I know you were waiting with baited breath to find out if I made it across – right? Of course you were!

My thoughts of becoming dinner or getting pulled down the river by the current or a floating body never happened.

We walked up to the area where the hot springs were and greeted with tons of graffiti. I loved it. It was all so very unique! Not just the steps and posts but the walls around the hot springs as well.

No – I did not get in. My feet got wet with the shallow parts – you could see the concrete floor inside the building portion of it. It was absolutely warm. Warmer than warm, but not hot.

These crazy people got in the big pool part of it (if you can call it big, or a pool, but it was deep!)