With a Midwestern tribute to the Roman baths, The Elms Hotel & Spa is a rustic, yet opulent, resort in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Sprawled across 16 acres of prime real estate, and with woodlands extending another 20 miles, the iconic resort sits on a wellspring of therapeutic mineral waters in America’s heartland.
It was back in the 1880s, in the days of pioneers and westward expansion, when Native Americans told a local farmer about the mineral water springs with magical healing powers. The farmer brought his daughter, with an incurable form of tuberculosis, to bathe in, plus drink the mineral waters, until gradually she recovered. The history and benefits of hot mineral springs.
