Langford's Hot Springs Resort -- Big Bend National Park TX
N 29° 10.662 W 102° 59.926
13R E 694606 N 3229330
J. O. Langford's hot springs resort that is an empty stabilized ruin long vacant in 2016 (except for the old hot springs bathhouse pool) was operational in 1940 when the WPA writers visited here. Hope they took a soak!
Waymark Code: WMV0W6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/04/2017
Views: 1
This stone store building is located near J. O. Langford's bathhouse and resort ruins at Tornillo Creek near Rio Grande Village.
From Texas: A guide to the Lone Star State:
"The main side route continues to a junction with a dirt road, 17.3 m. (Signs read "Hot Springs" and "Boquillas")
Left here across Tornillo Creek, on the road to the right, 1 m. to a junction with another dirt road.
1. Right from this junction 0.5 m. to HOT SPRINGS (cabins, camp sites, food supplies, post office}. A health resort with primitive facilities has been built here beside the Rio Grande, where a hot spring gushes forth, possessed, it is claimed, of medicinal qualities."
Book: Texas
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 625
Year Originally Published: 1940
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