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Grover Hot Springs
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Grover Hot Springs is a California State Park, complete with a campground with showers located in a scenic area that offers numerous hiking trails in addition to the springs themselves. There is a small fee to use the hot pool and sometimes you have to wait to get in. Bathing suits required. This is an excellent place to take the whole family, especially if you’re squeamish about nekkid soakers. The kiddies will probably enjoy the regular pool as much as the pool.
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The main source for Grover Hot Springs looks like any other spring: a muddy hole in the ground from which water spews like magic. This is unusual water though because it comes out of the ground at 140 degrees F. and is nearly sulfur-free, which means it lacks the rotten-egg sulfide odor that is common in other hot springs.
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The water from 5 springs is collected in an underground cistern, treated with bromine in the small shed in the middle, then piped to the hot pool at left. A regular swimming pool is hidden behind the large building with skylights.
The water in the hot pool has a disconcerting green appearance, but this is only the result of a reaction between the bromine and carbonates in the water that stain the concrete. The water itself is clear.
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The hot pool is about 3’ deep with a seat around the rim. Only 75 people are allowed inside the pool enclosure at a time, so on weekends you have to wait until someone leaves until you can pay your 3 bucks to get in. Once in though, you can wallow back and forth between the hot and cold pools for as long as you like.
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I personally prefer the 102 degree hot pool and find it useful for checking my health: I stay in until I can hear the blood pounding in my ears and can take my resting pulse by merely listening. I’ve found this method to be much more healthy than my old method which involved drinking beer until I could hear the blood in my ears.
My wife says they should charge me a dollar extra for hairball removal from the filter system.....the brat!
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