It’s natural to dip into one of Colorado’s scenic, soothing hot springs and want to stick around. Fortunately, several destinations around the state offer overnight accommodations — from the expected to the unexpected.

Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort, Nathrop

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Mount Princeton Hot Springs, Lisa Seaman 101721-wg-princeton

Front and center is the lodge complete with modern spoils you’d expect at a hotel. Other options at this 70-acre resort just outside Buena Vista include cliffside rooms with a splendid view, other rooms nestled near the upper pools, suites overlooking the creek and cabins sleeping up to 10 people. Bonus perks of an overnight: discount spa treatments and complimentary cross-country ski, snowshoe and fat bike rentals.

Glenwood Hot Springs Resort, Glenwood Springs

The home to the proclaimed world’s largest hot springs pool is perfect for families, who also delight in slides and more restful soaking baths. Parents: check out the accommodation with two connecting rooms and four queen beds. The lodge also offers more intimate suites with bars, balconies and a jacuzzi tub. Only a few steps away, you might also look to the historic Hotel Colorado, built in 1893.

Desert Reef Hot Springs, Florence

For decades “a secret and protected refuge from the world,” as the website reads, Desert Reef is becoming better known. That’s thanks to new ownership and facelift renovations over the past few years. Quiet, carefree solitude is still the aim of capped reservations and rules that limit the clientele. For one, clothing is optional. Couples stay in Airstreams, tiny homes or their own vans.

The Springs Resort, Pagosa Springs

It’s the one made famous by Oprah. The legendary talk show host stayed in what is now the “O” Suite, among the luxury, high-class spaces here. Yes, you’ll have to be willing to splurge. Yes, a day pass is available (as is the case for all on this list). But an overnight here is a true memory-maker, affording 24/7 access to the 25 pools spread across a terrace above the San Juan River.

Strawberry Park Hot Springs, Steamboat Springs

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Strawberry Park Hot Springs. Chancey Bush

If you don’t already have a lodging reservation for this winter, you’ll probably have to look to book next winter. Add the quirky overnight here to your bucket list — like so many people in Colorado and beyond who book months in advance. The rustic cabins, covered wagon and train caboose are in high demand, situated amid the forest surrounding these fairy-tale hot springs.

Hot Sulphur Springs Resort & Spa, Hot Sulphur Springs

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Steam rises from one of the recently remodeled pools at the Hot Sulphur Springs Resort and Spa last month in the small Grant County town north…

Don’t expect luxury but rather no-frills, motel-like rooms. Think rustic and remote — the surprise facility that a century ago birthed this drive-by town at one end of Grand County. If you’re looking for shops and restaurants, look to the end closer to Winter Park. Here, think nature. For the source of the 20 pools, see the springs bubbling along the hillsides, around where deer and elk are known to roam.