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Hot Springs National Park attractions
Hot Springs National Park attractions
Hot Springs National Park Visitor Center, Central Avenue (Hwy 7) between Reserve and Fountain Streets, Phone: 501-624-3383, ext. 640. Daily 9AM-5PM. The visitor center in the former Fordyce Bathhouse is also a 24-room museum offering self-guided tours. Considered the most elegant bathhouse when completed in 1915, it exhibits beautiful mosaic tile floors, marble, stained glass windows and ceilings, a gymnasium, and routine bathing equipment. The 15-minute orientation movie, Valley of Vapors, offers a brief history of the area. Taking the Baths is a 9-minute video showing the traditional bathing routine in the Hot Springs bathhouses. Rest rooms and water fountains are located in the basement. Other rooms shown include the music room, massage rooms and a bowling alley.
Bathhouse Row on Central Avenue includes the Fordyce Bathhouse and seven other bathhouses all built in the early 20th century. The Row is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Aside from the Fordyce which serves as the park visitor center, the is the only other operating bathhouse; it is still in use as a spa. The other bathhouses are vacant but awaiting new uses.
The Grand Promenade is a landscaped walkway behind Bathhouse Row which offers a glimpse of the springs and historic landscape features. Entrances are from behind the Visitor Center and from Fountain Street.
Scenic mountain drives on West Mountain, Hot Springs, and North Mountains have overlooks to the surrounding areas. An observation tower on top of Hot Springs Mountain is operated by a concessioner and offers a panoramic view of the Zig Zag range of the Ouachita Mountains.
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