Overview
Faywood Hot Springs rises hot from the desert floor of Grant County, New Mexico, near the City of Rocks — waters the Mimbres people used for perhaps a thousand years, their sites nearby honoured first, and successive newcomers channelled into eras of bathing enterprise: a stage-era stop, the grand Victorian-hotel decades when 'Faywood' promised cures, a sanatorium phase for the lung-sick, demolition and quiet, and revival as today's rustic clothing-optional resort of soaking pools, campsites and cabins under enormous sky. Springs telling suits the layers: bathers of other centuries glimpsed in the steam at dusk — a Victorian gentleman, a shawled woman — voices in the pools when the resort sits empty, lights where the old hotel stood, and the desert's own presences in older regional lore — undocumented, steam-soft, traded between soakers. The resort operates with its own access and etiquette policies, confirmed from its pages. Present Faywood as thousand-year bathing heritage — Mimbres to sanatorium to stargazers — its steam-figures the springs' long guest register.