Once a stayed at A very modest hotel there, but had 1 or 2. pools walking distance; I wonder if it's still there, name... Yes, I 'got lucky' in the pool Natural soaking pools, that is
Soda Springs is where Brigham Young had his summer home.
It's a tiny but incorporated city of app 3,000 people, per last census. Not much going on there, and not centrally located for traversing. It's a depressed economy (the rural areas,) unless you happen to be into farming or logging, construction, etc.
One of my cousins and her husband own several ranches over that way, further south of there. They work hard, and play hard. It's still very much a Mormon community, but there are of course other denominations there and secular is increasing.
it was a very modest $, non-chain h/motel we stayed at, but it has/had Hot Springs 'right on' or at least walking in swimsuit (sure I wore one, ha ha) distance...
My earliest memory was of Lava Hot Springs. This, according to my dad.
I was with him the time he held me on his shoulders while we watched the 4th of July Fireworks at Lava.
He looked astonished. He asked me how could I remember that, because I was only 6 months old, when we went there for the 4th of July that year?
How the heck was I supposed to know? I just remembered the sights, the sounds, and being on my dad's shoulders with the fireworks overhead. It was dazzling!