Jordan B.
Yelp
This place was a diamond in the rough, but now just rough. My wife and I found this place about 6 years ago and fell in love with how quite, clean, and cozy it was. We would make a trip at least once a year since we found it and loved to share it with family and friends. This last week we made reservations and hauled my brother and nephews along. I kept telling them they were in for one of the best camping experiences ever.
We showed up supper excited and ready to settle into a camp site, but we found the fire pit full of beer bottles, cans, cigarette butts, and nasty garbage from the party the night before. Originally they had only 8 camp sites. Camp sites. Now they have built camp sites for 12 or 13. The camp sites have turned into RV parking spots! 2 new yurts next to 3 the private soaking pools, that are no longer private. They are currently building a little cabin with its own soaking pool up on the hill, this does have potential. But back to the camp sites, if you think you can pitch a tent and listen to the crickets and your camp fire crack all night, WRONG!
We showed up in the mid afternoon, one guy and his wife had rented one of the yurts that is about 50 feet from the soaking pools. He had a gas generator running, I believe they where there for a family gathering. This family had multiple ATVs running back and forth, up and down the whole Maple Grove hot springs property, from camp site, to yurt, to the lake and back, and even worse they were going back and forth to top off there cups. We are talking about needing to use a razor ATV over walking 50 yards or less. This went on into the night. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my beverage, but there where multiple kids playing on the grass and walking from camp sites to pools. This family had multiple trucks parked on the grass next to the 3 small soaking pools,this family's generator ran until sunset.
Once the yurts gas generator finally shut down the 35' 5th wheel trailer's generators started up. This trailer was parked in the camping site next to our camping site, this guy was allowed to set his gas generator 20' from our tents. Crazzy! At about 9 at night this generator turned off for the night. Finally some quite time, not. At about 10pm The family that was staying in the yurt started his generator up again, it ran all night, and he finally turned it off at 9am in the morning. After a small confrontation and telling him thank you for shutting it down, he gave a little smile and said the owners approved the gas generators.
I have been to dozens of hot springs/camp sites from Canada to Mexico all along the Rocky Mountain range, west. Maple Grove Hot springs was one of the coolest, unique hot spring experiences out there. That experience is no longer. If you love being over crowded, ATVs all over kicking up dust, trucks pulling right up to the "private soaking pools" generators powering up trailers and TV sets all night, then this is the place for you.
Enjoy