As you know, we rarely pay for campgrounds except when we are out of solar… or if they have hot springs!

Bonus point if they have a live folk band that you can listen to while soaking!

The people sighting in itself is worth every penny… There was a guy doing hot yoga in the steam room, another one doing sit ups in the sauna while making questionable noises (the same guy executed a few very loud belly flaps from the side of the big pool… maybe that’s a blood circulation technique?…).

There was the cute guy reading The Phenomenon of Man while sitting in the pool, peeking up a little too often to see if it was worth keeping the act going.

There was the man speaking loudly to his boss in his cell while walking the pool. The young fit guy deep in transe in the 59 degree polar pool who remained there for spurs of 20-25 minutes, annoyed by all the lowly people who would walk in, scream from the cold and rush out. He elegantly jumped out every time to head to the sauna where he would stay far longer than us, mere mortals.

There were too many old man grunts and a lot of butt cracks.

During the high season, it is a bit more expensive, but you get a full continental breakfast that you can share with the people you saw grinding in the pool the night before.

PRACTICAL INFO

For 85 US$ in the off-season, you get a FHU 50 amp site + access to the hot springs for 2 persons for 2 days. If you go on a Sunday or a Thursday night, you also get live music from 7 to 10 pm that you can watch while soaking. It was a pretty decent folk band when we were there.

There are 4 pools outside at different temperatures and 7 more inside (mostly all at different temperatures as well). The difference is that they add chlorine to the outside pools but not the inside ones (they are emptied daily). There is also a steam room and a dry sauna. They even provide towels, so it’s basically a spa!

You get access to your campsite at 2 pm, so you can go for a soak right then, come back to have dinner at your rig and go back for the show and a night soak (open till 11 pm). Then the next morning, you need to leave your site by 11 am, but you can go park in the hot springs public parking and your bracelet is still good for the whole day. They open at 5:30 am.

They are closed from sundown Friday pm to sundown Saturday pm cleanup (I still don’t get why they don’t do that during the week…), so plan accordingly.