Bagby Hot Spring

Today we went to Baby Hot Spring. We left at 8:30am to get there early. Bagby is in the Mount Hood national forest. The drive there was fantastic. We went along the Clackamas river and saw great mountain and river views. We got there around 10:30am and got started on the hike to the hot spring.
The bridge at the trail head.

Michelle
Another cool foot bridge.

Ahhh!!! The pay off. We got there around 11 and got us a private tub and cubby, yeah! This place is really busy in the summer, that's why we wanted to get here early. This is a long log tub, it's really awesome. The tub is about 10-12 feet long. I want one at home.

Here is the water system. The hot water comes from the spring and you just have to plug the drain hole and then pull the stick that plug the in coming hot water. I had to get 4 buckets of cold water to mix with the hot water.
We're done at noon. You can see a few people at the waiting area. This hut has 5 private cubby and a public area. The public area has a big round tub (5 people) and 3 log tubs (2 people.) This hot spring is clothing optional so that's why we wanted to get a private cubby. Of course the public area only had guys. We stopped at Safeway to get some granola bars when we left earlier.

Here is the hot spring. You can see it go from the spring down to a wooden aquaduct to the tubs.

big log

Refreshed and it's time to go - 1.5 miles hike back to the car.


All in all a great trip.