A chance to soak in hot sulfur springs with a cold drink has returned to San Antonio's Mission District with the opening of Camp Hot Wells.
more than a century ago with the opening of the Hot Wells resort in the 1890s. The soaking came to a stop after a series of fires left the resort in ruins, and the original well was capped in 2013.
The grandeur of the resort may be gone, but that magical water didn't go anywhere. And now, it's bubbled back to the surface for all to enjoy with the opening of Camp Hot Wells. Camp Hot Wells sits in the shadow of the resort's skeleton, which has since been stabilized and turned into the Hot Wells of Bexar County park. Camp Hot Wells owner James Lifshutz, who's been instrumental in preserving the Hot Wells legacy through the Hot Wells Conservancy, drilled 1,800 feet into the earth — that's more than twice the height of the Tower of the Americas — to tap into the sulfur springs that once fed the resort's bathhouse.
For a more thorough sulfur springs experience, Camp Hot Wells members can book time in one of two private bathing areas or reserve both rooms and a smartly landscaped garden for private events. One of the private bathing rooms features a pair of vintage claw-foot tubs, and a wooden Japanese-inspired hot tub sits in the other. Rates are $100 an hour for two people in the bathing rooms, and the whole space costs $300 for two hours.
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