Talk:The Geysers

message: I am just old enough to remember the Geysers Resort. Obviously not it's heyday, but it's later days, during the Hippie era. The resort at that time, consisted of a small hotel with a restaurant ( I remember they had the best coffee I had ever tasted. Must have had something to do with the water ) and an old ramshackle bath house.
When you drove the then gravel road, it was hairy trip. Many times the road was washed out. At the end of Geysers Road was the entrance to the "Resort", you had to pay an entrance fee at the hotel. From there you walked down to the bath house, which had three pools, a dry sauna, and a steam room that consisted of a sort of cave, with a pipe gushing hot steam from one of the geysers. You could not control the heat, and sometimes it became unbearable. The three pools were of three different temperatures. The largest was bath water warm, the next smaller one, was boiling hot. Last but not least, there was a cold plunge. There was a rickety wooden bridge that crossed Big Sulphur Creek. On the other side were several natural pools that were fed by a hot waterfall from above. There was a trail that went up the side of the hill, to one of the wellfields. People camped down along Big Sulphur Creek, and up the creek was a great swimming hole. I had some great times there. The last time I attempted to visit in the mid seventies, the resort had been turned into a religious commune. The bathouse had been drained and turned into a barn for animals. That was the last I saw of the Geysers until I looked it up on Wikipedia. I wish I had some pictures of it then. It was a great place. Unfortunately it was eventually closed, due to unsanitary conditions at the baths that polluted the creek. --Bunkster (talk) 04:24, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is interesting information.  In order to add it to the article, we would need to cite reliable sources for the information.  For instance, the existence of the Geysers Resort Hotel (starting in 1852!) is confirmed by this page.  Do you have access to any books or articles that discuss the history of the Hotel?  Can you narrow down the date of closure? --Stepheng3 (talk) 22:24, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remembering the Geysers Resort 

message: Hello. Perhaps we should consider adding a table listing all the power stations on this field with their respective capacities, coordinates, etc? Kind regards. Rehman(+) 16:09, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: History
Drilling a geothermal well, 1977 (USGS).
The first recorded discovery of The Geysers was in 1847 during John Fremont's survey of the Sierra Mountains and the Great Basin by William Bell Elliot. Elliot called the area "The Geysers," although the geothermal features he discovered were not technically geysers, but fumaroles. Soon after, in 1852, The Geysers was developed into a spa for The Geysers Resort Hotel, which attracted the likes of Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Mark Twain.[9]
67.188.44.157 (talk) 04:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Geysers,  History 

message: Hi--
geysers are effectively long period fumaroles, which have more power behind them. So if some people heard them...
anyhow, that should help...
72.214.13.2 (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 01:17, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fumaroles And Geysers 

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