Name | Hot Springs National Park |
Brief Description | National Park |
Type | Attraction |
Category | Hot Springs Arkansas National Park |
Description | Congress established Hot Springs Reservation on April 20, 1832 to protect hot springs flowing from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain. This makes it the oldest area currently in the National Park System--40 years older than Yellowstone National Park. People have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for more than two hundred years to treat rheumatism and other ailments. The reservation eventually developed into a well-known resort nicknamed |
CSZ | Hot Springs, AR 71902 |
Phone 1 | (501) 620-6715 |
Handicapped Accessible | No |
Website | www.nps.gov/hosp/index.htm |
Last Updated | 1/23/2013 |
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