Hot Springs State Park
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Hot Springs State Park is a park in Thermopolis, Wyoming famous for its hot springs. It was Wyoming's first state park.
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, a statue made of naturally forming travertine (calcium carbonate) caused by a flowing mineral hot spring, and the petroglyph site at Legend Rock (some 25 miles from the main park).
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Coordinates: 43°39′17″N 108°11′55″W / 43.65472°N 108.19861°W
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