Hot Springs State Park

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Hot Springs State Park is a park in Thermopolis, Wyoming famous for its hot springs. It is Wyoming's first state park.

A bison grazes in the Buffalo Pasture in Hot Springs State Park
A bison grazes in the Buffalo Pasture in Hot Springs State Park
A winter view of the suspension footbridge over the Big Horn River
A winter view of the suspension footbridge over the Big Horn River

The park includes a number of businesses:

  • Wyoming Pioneer Home, a state-run assisted-living facility
  • Gottsche Rehabilitation Center
  • The Plaza Hotel
  • Holiday Inn
  • The Star Plunge, a privately operated water-park
  • The Tepee Pools, another private water-park
  • Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital

The park also includes bison (in a managed herd), a suspension foot bridge across the Big Horn River, the State Bath House, picnic shelters, primitive boat ramp, flower gardens, and the petroglyph site at Legend Rock (some 25 miles from the main park).

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