![]() ![]() It’s only a 35-minute drive from the ski area. Located in the town that bears its name, Hot Sulphur Springs offers 21 pools of varying sizes and temperatures to soak weary bones. Most ski commuters turn around and head back to the Front Range after a day at Winter Park, but head in the opposite direction of the traffic and your day will only get better. You can stay in the resort or to save money buy a day pass and stay at one of the more affordable hotels in town. The mineral-rich water will soothe body and mind, though the sulphur smell will live on in your swimsuit for a long time to come. ![]() There are 25 pools in a lovingly manicured resort along the San Juan River, ranging in temperature from pleasant cool dips to so hot it’s hard to stay long. The Springs Resort and Spa in downtown Pagosa Springs is like a water park for hot springs, a 30-minute drive from the ski area. ![]() And with some of the best hike-to terrain in Colorado to boot, you’ll be ready for a soak. If you’ve ever skied this southern Colorado mountain when it got 2 feet of snow overnight - it happens a lot when storms come out of the desert Southwest and slam into the San Juan Mountains - you know what it means to feel the leg burn. (Kevin Eassa, The Springs Resort and Spa) Wolf Creek Ski Area - Pagosa Hot Springs The mineral-rich water will soothe body and mind. There are 25 pools in a lovingly manicured resort along the San Juan River. The Springs Resort and Spa in downtown Pagosa Springs is like a water park for hot springs lovers - and its just a 30-minute drive from Wolf Creek Ski Area. You spent the day enjoying nature’s gift from above – snow – so now enjoy nature’s gift from below, water heated by geothermal forces deep underground.Ĭall it a perfect Colorado day. ![]() The water is toasty and the crisp air is thick with steam. There’s something magical about soothing weary muscles and reliving the day’s exploits on the mountain at a hot springs. All the muscles you’ve neglected since closing day last year are screaming in protest. It was a powder day in ski country and you left it all on the mountain. On a powder day I wonder if you could even find enough momentum to make turns on most of the terrain - it’s that flat.Thursday, August 10th 2023 Home Page Close Menu Blues are really green and blacks are really intermediate. The rest of the ridge is unimpressive and you can pretty much subtract a full rating from each trail. However, that area is very small and only has a few hundred feet of vertical followed by a long flat runout to the base of the Alberta chair. Yes, it has the Waterfall area which is a collection of double-black chutes and narrow lines through the trees. But the place seemed way too flat for the most part. Maybe it was because we had just skied Taos the day before, or maybe I’ve gotten a lot better or equipment has changed the way I ski now. When we finally visited together it had been about 25 years since my last visit and I had a hard time reconciling my memories of the place with the reality. Wolf Creek always seems to get snow year after year even when the rest of Colorado and New Mexico was dry. We would go there when snow at Taos wasn’t that good. I started skiing Wolf Creek back in the 80’s when I was growing up in New Mexico. Wolf Creek trail map 21/22 Wolf Creek Review History with Wolf Creek ![]()
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