Join the Ripple Effect Every gift creates a ripple. Every ripple strengthens our community.
A ripple begins with something small. A swim lesson that builds confidence. A scholarship that opens a door. A senior finding a place to stay active and connected. New opportunities for wellness, recovery, and healing. An accessible space that welcomes everyone with dignity.
Together, these moments create something much larger: a healthier, more connected community. For more than 90 years, OTHS has been creating ripples that reach far beyond our pools, fitness center, and programs. Your gift carries that impact forward, opening doors, changing lives, and creating opportunities for generations to come. Join the Ripple Effect; Give today!
What Your Gift Supports
• Community Support Program: Expanding access through scholarships, swim lesson assistance, and nonprofit partnerships. • Water Safety Initiative: Ensuring the youth of our valley receive the vital education around water safety from a young age. • Accessibility Improvements: Advancing ADA renovations and facility enhancements that improve access for all. • Recovery & Wellness Spaces, Equipment, & Programming: Saunas, State-of-the-art equipment, and programs to support health, resilience, and active lifestyles for all ages. Learn more about our Old Town Sauna Society project.
How Your Gift Creates a Ripple
$100 Helps provide swim lessons for a child, building confidence and essential water safety skills. $250 Supports aquatics, fitness, wellness, and recreation programs that strengthen our community. $1,000 Provides scholarship support that helps individuals and families access health, wellness, and recreation opportunities. $5,000 Supports ADA accessibility improvements and facility enhancements that make OTHS more welcoming and accessible for all. $10,000 Advances recovery and wellness spaces, equipment, and programming that promote healing, connection, and healthy aging. $25,000+ Helps bring transformational projects to life, including the Old Town Sauna Society and expanded wellness and recovery opportunities for generations to come.
See the Ripple In Action
Your direct support creates impact that reaches far beyond our walls. Watch the videos below to see that impact in action.
Our 2025 Impact
With your support, we had a significant impact on our community last year. Read all about our work in our 2025 Impact Report and some highlights from this past year below.
In 2025, OTHS invested over $249K in community support, expanding access to health and wellness for 6,061 individuals. Scholarship awards rose 94% (400 total), and partnerships with local nonprofits grew by 23% (111 total), allowing us to reduce barriers and uplift more families across the Yampa Valley.
More children learned to swim at OTHS this year than ever before, with 3,272 swim lessons to date. With lesson participation more than doubling, a rapidly growing swim team, and 73 newly trained lifeguards, our aquatics team is building water safety skills to benefit everyone in our valley.
Fitness participation surged, with over 91,000 class visits and nearly 5,000 classes offered. With eight free programs and 158 donated classes/spaces, we continue to make movement accessible for all.
352,000+ member check-ins highlight the vital role OTHS plays in daily community life. From childcare to senior support, our team works to create a welcoming experience for all who walk through our doors.
Mission
Old Town Hot Springs is the non-profit center for health and wellness, providing recreation and education in aquatics and fitness for our members, guests, and community.
Background Statement
Old Town Hot Springs is a historic hot spring and family-friendly recreational facility in the heart of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. We have been a site for recreation and rejuvenation in this community for over 100 years because of the gift of the Heart Spring. The swimming and soaking pools have been here in one form or another for over a century, first serving as a gathering and bathing place for the Ute Indians who first settled in this area. The Ute Indians knew them as “medicine” springs, frequenting them for sacred physical and spiritual healing. Later it was most likely a social and bathing place for the first homesteaders. We are lucky to have the famous Heart Spring, the source of all the healing mineral water in our eight pools.
Old Town Hot Springs has grown and improved over the years into a multi-use complex that serves as a health and wellness center for Steamboat Springs' community and visitors. We offer recreational and educational opportunities in aquatics and fitness for all ages. In addition to our hot soaking pools, our amenities include an 8-lane lap pool with diving board, community pool, kiddie splash pool, an aquatic climbing wall, two 225-foot water slides, massage therapy, childcare, and a fitness center with classes, cardio equipment, and a weight room.
In the spirit of Steamboat Springs' recreation and relaxation needs, in 2019, we completed Phase 1 of our It’s In the Water Capital Campaign, expanding our facility by 15,000 square feet. This addition included a community room with a kitchen for healthy living programs and CPR/First Aid training, a 48-foot climbing wall, dedicated spin and functional training rooms, new guest locker rooms, Steamboat’s only indoor walking track, expanded weight and cardio areas, and an additional studio for group exercise and fitness programming. In 2025, we completed Phase 2 of the project which included a new pump house, competitive 8-lane lap pool with diving board, community pool, kiddie splash pool, and hot pool for swimming, soaking, programs, and recreation. Old Town Hot Springs continues to grow and improve to meet the needs of this community and to serve our mission.