Taking the Kids: To a Hot Springs

Soaking in a hot spring is beneficial to the body and great hot springs can be found in many states of America.

The people enjoying the natural hot springs at the Glenwood Hot Springs Resort Colorado, USA. Dreamstime/TNS

The Native Americans got it right. So did the down-and-outers making their way across the country in search of jobs during the Great Depression.

Native Americans have known the benefits of mineral hot springs for thousands of years. They named this area of Wyoming—now the tiny town of Saratoga, just three hours from Denver—the “place of magic waters.”