Mystic Hot Springs

This is not a "Mystic Mike should do this" review. We stayed a Mystic on 5/15/13 the staff were great and the water was hot. There were a few things that should be addressed. The main restrooms in the camping area were out of order and it looked like had been for awhile. Port a potties should be provided until the restrooms are repaired. Picnic tables would be a nice touch in the tent camping area. Trash dumpsters were overflowing and had a lovely odor. Hot water running to all of the soaking tubs would be good. After charging us(2) $40.00 to soak and camp for the night I hope bad karma doesn't fall Mikes way.

Quite possibly the strangest place on the planet...  If you are looking for a commercialized, sanitized, corporatized, overpriced hot spring experience, do not come here.  If you are looking for a unique hippy dippy soakathonic adventure with the kindest of staff, head here at once.  

Mystic Mike (the owner who stumbled upon and bought this place 17 years ago while following the Grateful Dead across the country) defies all common sense logic with his hot springs business plan, yet it seems to work.  As far as the "junk and scraps" lying around the facility, Mike doesen't view these items as "trash," instead valuable materials he will reuse on a future project such as the geothermal heated greenhouse made with reclaimed wood and tent parts used in the Viet Nam war.  Maybe we can all learn a lesson from his "reuse" mentality.  Additionally, he has befriended many amazing world class bands over the years that routinely stop here while on tour to soak and play music for you in the most intimate of settings.

For those reviewers who say this place "could be great if...," I say Mystic is already a great place.  You either "get it" or you don't.

This weekend I was surprised by wife with an adventure. As we only listened to Grateful Dead. We traveled along highway 89, avoiding I-15 just for the fun of it. After two hours we arrived at Mystic Hot Springs.

When we pulled up, I could see why my wife insisted on Listening Grateful Dead. A broken down bus sat at in the main parking lot with "Grateful Dead" painted on the side. I could not believe where we were nor that my wife had found this place. We were checked in by Mike. Or as he goes by "Mystic Mike." He was kind and took time to give us a lay out of the property. That's when I learned we were staying in the "Ripple" bus. "A bus?" I thought. "Ripple bus?" I thought. Surely named for the great Garcia/Hunter tune, Ripple. Awesome.

We drove down to the Ripple bus. It was just that, a small converted school bus that that looked like one those I had seen in pictures and dreamed of in my youth hoping one day to follow the Dead as they toured the country.

The door to the bus was "secured" by a piece of wood through the lock latch. The inside was clean and comfortable. There was a power strip that had a small heater and a light strip (which provided sweet "mood" lighting) as well as a few other outlets if you need to charge your phone, or plug something else in. Because it was muddy, due to melting snow, a nice wood pallet was provided for us to step out on to. The bed was comfortable, and plenty of bedding was provided to keep us warm at night. To keep the door "secured" at night a bungee cord of the highest caliber was provided.

After settling in, we walked up to the hot springs. They were awesome. We soaked in one of the tubs watching the sunset. It was so peaceful and quite. The tubs were clean, the water was hot, the sunset, was INCREDIBLE.

The property is bohemian for sure. There is a lot of stuff all over the place. So much so the producers of American Pickers and Hoarders could have a heyday. However, it's clean. Most importantly, the bathrooms were kept really nice and clean (no glory holes between the stalls). Aside from the tubs, are the main soaking pools. They were nice to relax in. Mystic Hot Springs offers other accommodations, cabins tent sites, however, I gotta say, get a bus. Where else can you stay in a bus? The property has other buses that I hope are available soon. It will be rad to see if they get cool graphics painted on them. A couple already have cool graphics, like the Nature Bus.

So if you find yourself wanting a far out trip, man, head down to Monroe, Utah and chill in Mystic Hot Springs. Just remember if you go, "no one may follow that path is for your feet alone."