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Colorado's Hot Springs

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Deborah George has written a fairly comprehensive guidebook detailing most of the hot springs of Colorado. She gives in-depth history of the springs and interesting facts. _Colorado hot springs_ Entries should be approached with care; George has fallen into a guidebook trap of only saying good things in her book. From her glowing descriptions of each spring, it is very hard to separate the great springs from the mediocre ones. The few negative things she has to say are vastly outweighed by the positive thus making the entries far from unbiased. Of course, everyone has favorites and is keen to embellish a bit, but every spring in Colorado is George's favorite.
George's book also lacks reliable directions and locations. While this isn't usually a problem for developed hot springs, the undeveloped springs have proved a bit harder to find. The entry for Penny Springs has quite good directions up until the last moment, advising Hot Springers to watch for a "well used turnout [with] a very small `C.R. 11' sign." Locating the `well used' turnout proved to be quite a challenge requiring three laps up and down the road and another guide book. Upon closer inspection, the C.R 11 sign appears to no longer exist. This type of experience is typical of George's directions.
Deborah George provides history, folklore and some interesting facts concerning Colorado's hot springs, but don't rely on her opinion of what is good because to her they're all great.

I've bought several hot springs books and this is the best yet! I do agree with the reviewer who said that most of what she says leans towards "over exuberant"; such as we might not rate say Hot Sulpher Springs as "one of Colorado's lovliest destination spas", the history and education is worth buying the book alone! Her separation into area of the state and the map in front locating each spring is very helpful! I would recommend buying this book!

This book was very useful on a recent trip to Colorado. The descriptions are accurate. It is also very helpful to have the clothing required/optional/none as part of the descriptions. The directions for reaching each of the hot springs is accurate and helpful.