The Splash at Fossil Trace — Attraction in Golden

A delightfully wet haven nestled right in Colorado’s highlands which I found while searching for a rare species of ant. Came across several youngin’s in red bathing attire who were yippin and hollerin at the bathers. Didn’t understand who these youths were at first but after sharing a fabulous steak with several of them persons I came to appreciate the heroes they are. They even helped apply a simple adhesive bandage to my Adam’s apple after I ran on the wet pool deck, dove into the shallow end, went under the rope, and scratched my Adam’s apple on sunglasses I’d lost off the slide earlier. The lifeguards were very polite yet firm when telling me the laws of the lake. I had the impression that had I ever been burned on the premises I would have been removed from the source of the burn immediately! Lifeguards ate many carrots(apparently around a pound and a half a day) which explains their excellent eyesight and vigilance!! -Came for the world famous steak, stayed for the bragging rights and...

Super cute pool for kids, buckets and slides for the smaller kids, there’s also 2 bigger slides for the bigger kids and adults. They have a splash area and a very cute sandpit that supplies buckets and sand toys for the kids. There’s also the bigger pool with the deep ends of you don’t want to sit in the kids pool. Now days most pools are always “at capacity” which sucks when you already have your kids ready to go just to be told they’re not allowing anymore people in, but this pool was pretty packed and they didn’t set a cut off. Went at 10am and left at 3:40pm, there were still people walking in. It’s not an overwhelming area of people either there is plenty of room to set up your own spaces along the grass and chairs.

Fav thing about these places, you can bring your own food and tents in to set up for the day. 👌🏻 We had a blast, we were comfortable and we will definitely...

A bunch of kids that don't know how to run a pool. When we first got there, all of the staff was standing around one area of the pool saying there was a snake stuck in the pool vent and were trying to figure out how to get it out. So when we were on a rain delay, all the kids went over trying to get it out. They were not touching the water, they were not shoving things down the drain..... the staff just wanted to be bossy and say that they are reliable if the snake did something to them.... which everyone knows that is not true....probably one of the silliest things I've heard actually. You kick the kids out if the pool because of the rain and then get mad when they try to rescue a snake. Makes no sense. We will not be back ever because instead of making it makes sense they just wanted to keep arguing. I've been taking my kids here for...