If you find yourself studying a map and driving through southern Colorado in search of Purgatory Springs, you will not be disappointed. You will discover beautiful scenery and a rich regional history, but you will never find Purgatory Springs itself.

Purgatory Springs is an imagined Colorado town, and Purgatory Springs 1927 is a work of historical fiction. True events, real places, and the broader history of Colorado’s spa towns helped inspire the world of Purgatory Springs, but all characters, names, businesses, scenes, incidents, locations, and events in the novel and on this site are either invented or fictionalized. To protect the innocent, the names of the guilty have been changed. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely—and mostly—coincidental.

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Visit Colorado. Drive the Highway of Legends. Enjoy the website. The water is fine.