Mystic Hot Springs Soak Your Bones While Soaking Up the Scenery By Nicole Anderson
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life in the late 90s.
Mike Ginsburg, a hippie with a lot of soul,
found here. It’s just one of those places that
found himself in the small rural town of
feels right,” said Ginsburg.
raveling home in an old school bus from the last Grateful Dead concert,
Monroe when his bus broke down on the
“There is a certain kind of magic to be
Originally homesteaded by the Cooper
side of the road. From there—which is
family in 1886, the land has undergone
darn close to the middle of nowhere—fate
myriad changes over the last hundred
took over, as it usually does, and Mike was
years. When Ginsburg first bought the
exactly where he was meant to be.
property, there was only one cabin, the
Within a week of being stranded in
Grow Cabin, but he wanted and needed
Monroe, Mike purchased a decrepit old
more space to rent to visitors and guests.
hot spring resort and created something
He began acquiring old homesteads and
mystical—hence the name, Mystic Hot
shacks throughout the valley as well as an
Springs—and brought the resort back to
eclectic collection of vintage buses.
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