Bagby Hot Springs — Local services in Molalla

To be honest, I'm pretty surprised there are this many 4 and 5 star reviews. 🧐 Let me be clear: the TRAIL🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏼‍♀️ is very well-kept and for 1.5 miles, it's a beautiful, easy hike. But this review is specifically about the HOT SPRINGS🧖🏼‍♀️🧖🏿‍♂️. There are PUBLIC AND PRIVATE tubs. There is a single outhouse stall that is absolutely putrid by typical State Park standards: Feces sprayed everywhere (just keep reading). 💩💦Do not go in without shoes. 👟👟The actual structure which houses the bathing tubs is waterlogged and looks like a patchwork quilt of really half-assed repairs. The PUBLIC tubs are stuffed into a creepy, dark room that completely shuts you off from nature... why?!🌲🚫 The PRIVATE tubs will cost you some time: a single sign suggests that patrons spend maximum 45 minutes in private tub stalls... which absolutely no one pays any mind to. Once in, plan on at least 4 trips to the cold water trough... the springwater is literally scalding. 🚰🔥🔥🔥The tubs are nasty, slimey, hair and skin-coated logs. That's right. Slime logs. ☣🤮😷😰As I slipped apprehensively into the slime log, I actually prayed that I wouldn't contract a disease.🤷🏻‍♀️🙏🏻 I hope the scalding water has what it takes to sterilize all the human debris shed from all the bodies...☺ From inside the rapey, darkened, dirt brown walls covered in graffiti, one can catch a very tiny glimpse of nature. But the mosquitoes still all managed to find their way in! 🙃🕷 I'll level with ya'll a minute and admit that I'm a hippie. I use Dr. Bronner's for pretty much everything. I use tea tree oil for pretty much everything that ails me. But I was seriously uncomfortable at these hot springs. It creeped me out and seems very unsanitary... which is saying something, given some of the hot springs I've been to. This could be a beautiful hot spot for all, but has been badly neglected. This is why natural resources become privatized. 😤 I guess you can just illegally drink your way through the creepiness... thankfully, there's a single recycling can overflowing with alcohol containers you can...

In the 1976 or 7, shortly after the fire that destroyed the old bathhouses, my first trip to Bagby soaking in the logs on the creek bed below.

Those were the days of the "best kept secret" status of Bagby, when you could hike up on a Friday night with a spliff and a pint (or a 6-pack) and lounge beneath the stars bumper-sticker philosophizing, laughing, romancing.

The last time I went to Bagby was in 2017 where I had a lovely soak in the "Sasquatch Suite". I took one of my kids and a friend of his from Chicago. Incidentally no one was there when we showed up @ 9 am. It was quiet, it was my last chance to experience the magic of the artisanal care that went into the construction of that old bathhouse. I am glad that I didn't read the online reviews before I went.

I suppose it was inevitable that Bagby would become a target of over-use as a "selling point" of "the beauty of the Pacific Northwest".

Considering some of the reviews and stories I had read/heard, it sounds like at times Bagby becomes the gathering grounds for severely unsavory types.

I felt like the last time I went to Bagby will be the "Last" time I go. Frankly, it is in amazingly good shape considering its over-use, but tearing apart the historical cabin for firewood? WHAT is WRONG with some people?

It is no longer the gathering grounds for the romantics, actors, misfits, and poets of the '70s, but something completely different. I'll miss the magical forest. I don't know if I will ever go there again.

The pictures are of the old bathhouse that is being destroyed. I've now literally been with this bathhouse for the duration of its life. My heart just weeps for how Bagby is mistreated at times. But... more people always means more problems.

I just ask those who do to leave it in as good/better shape than you found it. This wilderness...

Im a mom and wife of a family of 4 my review is both personal and for general information I totally get that people can be very liberal and that's fine but if this is a public place and there's policies and rules, people should follow it but in this case when we got to there, there was nudist in the pools that were supposed to be public and out of those three public pools only two were working or functional. in the upper private rooms they're supposed to be 4 but only two were functioning the one that is farthest to the left has a 2-foot line of hole that is being stuffed with someone else's t-shirt. there was wine bottles graffiti, it was just disappointing to know how people left the area and how disappointing that the tub had a whole so we were freezing and two inches of water hoping that it would have eventually fill up. You have to adjust water by caring buckets from the cold water... the third to the last was good but the water was not filling up because the second one was over spilling and the hot springs where not getting to everybody else. for the hike I'm going to say that it's just not the best place.. I'm definitely into looking for some other hot springs in Oregon but i do NOT think this is a place for children or families.. maybe for teenagers and adults but again just be aware of that people don't follow rules, the tubs have other people's hairs and whatever else... And its common for people to be naked and you never know what the wait us going to be like because people are not considerate of those...