Hot Springs State Park
| Hot Springs State Park | |
| Wyoming State Park | |
 Hot Springs State Park | |
| Country |  United States |
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| State |  Wyoming |
| County | Hot Springs |
| Location | Thermopolis |
| - coordinates | 43°39′17″N 108°11′55″W / 43.654722°N 108.198611°WCoordinates: 43°39′17″N 108°11′55″W / 43.654722°N 108.198611°W |
| Area | 1,039 acres (420 ha) |
| Founded | 1897 as Big Horn Hot Springs State Reserve |
| Management | Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites |
| style=""color: #cde5b2"" | IUCN category | V - Protected Landscape/Seascape |
  Location of Hot Springs State Park in Wyoming
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| Website: Hot Springs State Park | |
Hot Springs State Park is a park in Thermopolis, Wyoming famous for its hot springs.[1] 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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Travertine formation at Hot Springs State Park
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View of the suspension footbridge over the Big Horn River in the winter
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Hot Springs State Park
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Bison in Hot Springs State Park
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Big Horn Hot Springs
References
- ↑ Staff. "Hot Springs State Park". Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
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