Our Story
Lime, a road built by hand, a pool tarp ironed together and three families who kept the water running.
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Three Families and One Spring
Phil Neibaur wrote this history in 2003, completing the family’s 52nd year at the springs. Most of what we know is his.
Who Kept It Going
Before the Pool, 1812
Trappers, a soak and a long walk over the Big Holes.
The Pincocks, 1898 to 1944
Lime, a sawmill, the biggest pool anyone had seen and a road built by hand.
The Thuesons, 1944 to 1952
Eight years that turned a country swimming hole into a modern resort.
The Neibaurs, 1952 to today
A dry farm traded for a pool, and seventy-odd years of keeping it open.
The Canyon So Far
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1812
Robert Stuart’s party camps here and soaks on the way to Teton Valley.
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1898
The Pincock brothers buy the spring from a man named Butler and file the water right.
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1903
Lime from the big white rock goes to build the Sugar City factory. Green Canyon begins.
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1912
Pincock Springs opens a covered pool, 125 by 75 feet. Nobody here had seen one that big.
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1924
A dance hall goes up, with a hardwood floor and lumber from the family mill.
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1942
A dog chews through a wire and the family house burns to the ground.
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1944
Bob Thueson pipes the water down the hill and names the place Green Canyon.
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1948
The new pool opens, about here. Someone wrote “Van Thueson 1947” on the lobby wall.
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1952
The Neibaurs trade a dry farm for it. Their first day of business is Easter Sunday.
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1953
The first plastic pool tarp is ironed together that winter, and it saves the building.
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1964
Swim lessons start with one carpool from Teton. Soon every town from Sugar City to Victor comes.
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1975
Phil comes home from his mission to manage the pool, and the canyon gets a telephone.
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1981
Winter swimming begins, thanks to two very expensive propane heaters.
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1982
A group of West Jefferson parents asks to camp and swim for a week. Swim camp is born.
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1985
The hot pool opens, with jets and a cold plunge in the corner.
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1996
Customers sign petitions to pave the road. A snowmobile grant finally does it.
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2003
One hundred years. Phil writes it all down.
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Today
[The family’s update since 2003]
