Park Review – Grande Hot Springs

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐1/2
Location: La Grande, OR
Type: Commercial Park
Check-in/Check-out times: 1:00/12:00
Site Quality / Amenities: Sites and roads are gravel/dirt. There was grass/weeds between each site and each site had a picnic table. There were tent sites and a couple of Yurts for those who don’t have an RV. The main attraction is that the park has two thermal soaking pools using hot water from the nearby Hot Lake.
Access: From I-84 take exit 265 (exit 268 is closer but requires driving several miles on a dirt road). Go southeast on OR-203 to Hot Lake Ln. and turn right. The park is on the left a short way down.
Staff: Check-in was easy and the staff were fast and efficient.
Cellular/WiFi: WiFi was available but we didn’t use it. Verizon 4GLte was good at 50Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. Starlink was unobstructed although there are some smaller trees around the park.
Restaurants: La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant – Acceptable Mexican although as expected it wasn’t Tex-Mex.
Nearby parks: We didn’t look at any other parks nearby.
What we liked: The hot tub was large and provided water from a nearby mineral hot spring. Unfortunately it and the larger warm pool were also chlorinated so you didn’t get the full experience of a mineral bath. There was a train track nearby but we hardly ever heard the trains.
What we didn’t like: We had planned to visit The Oregon Trail Interpretive Park at Blue Mountain Crossing but it closed after Labor Day. Another museum called Union County Museum would have also been interesting but it was closed on the days we were in town.
Verdict: Good stop for a few nights to swim in the mineral bath hot tub.