READER NOTE: LEHMAN IS CLOSED NOW, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GET INSIDE THE BARRICADES.
Founded in 1871, Lehman Hot Springs is located in a timbered setting 4,300 feet above sea level, deep within Oregon's scenic Blue Mountains.For over 138 years, people of all walks of life enjoyed the largest collection of natural hot spring pools in the Northwest. Lehman Hot Springs is the biggest hot springs in Northwestern America, with 157 springs that feed a hot creek that feed 3 pools of different temperatures and of course the non hot spring cold pool. Lehman once had a post office and several cabins, that residents lived in (there are still many houses before you get to Lehman) it also had a huge dance hall for the locals to party down. The dance hall is still erected and is now referred to as the Bunk house. Many people used to travel the world to come to Lehman for its "healing waters." Lehman has passed through multiple owners (recently was auctioned back to the Stubblefield family.) and now is in desperate need of repair due to years and years of DEQ fines and simple neglect from previous owners.
WHY IS LEHMAN CLOSED NOW? Lehman Springs for the last 20 years (give or take) has been fined by DEQ on multiple occassions for sewer lagoons leaking into the nearby creek.
Now that fine after fine has been imposed on Lehman for multiple reasons (mostly the sewer lagoons) the resort had to be shut down. A new owner has recently taken.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEGAL BATTLES OF LEHMAN Please visit http://www.lehmanhotsprings.com/legal-updates.html
My hope is that LEHMAN WILL OPEN again because it is a wonderfully awesome place and everyone in the world deserves to be able to stare at its beauty and wonder! It makes me sad that my children can't enjoy a place that I grew up loving and working at. I WILL POST MORE UPDATES as we hear them.