Check It Off the "Bucket List"

We've always wanted to soak in a natural hot spring . . . and Big Bend has one of its own. We drove down a dust road three miles to the edge of the Rio Grande where an enterprising man built a motel, post office and store out of stone in the 1920's. He enclosed the hot spring with a rock bath house, but a flood washed away the structure many years ago. All that exists today is the foundation of the bath house, which makes a large hot tub for bathers. Temperature of the water is a perfect 105 degrees. The spring dumps directly into the Rio Grande that runs alongside, so you can step over the foundation wall into the river to cool off. Check it off the bucket list!