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 visitor center in the former Fordyce Bathhouse is also a 24-room museum offering self-guided tours. Hot Springs National Park Visitor Center, Central Avenue (Hwy 7) between Reserve and Fountain Streets, Phone: 50, ext.Tours are available from private companies.Vehicles more than 30 feet long are prohibited on Hot Springs Mountain because the road has hairpin curves. The City of Hot Springs runs a trolley to the tower on Hot Springs Mountain from May to October. Personal vehicles or bicycles can be used on the roads.The $10 per day fee for camping is the only fee.

Amtrak's Texas Eagle route serves Little Rock, Arkansas, with shuttle services to Hot Springs.Greyhound Bus Lines, 1001 Central Ave, Suite D, Hot Springs, 1-80.The Visitor Center is located downtown on Highway 7 North or Central Avenue.When you get into the city you will see signs for the National Park. Coming from Oklahoma on US 70 go all the way into Hot Springs.If traveling south on US 71 from Fort Smith, or north on US 71 from Texarkana, take the US 270 East exit and take 270B through town.7, come through downtown Hot Springs where the visitor center is located. From Interstate 30 take the Hot Springs US 70 West exit south of Benton, the Hot Springs US 270 West exit at Malvern, or the Hot Springs Ark.Little Rock National Airport (with shuttle service and rental cars.).

Climate in the park is four-seasonal and generally mild except in winter when temperatures can reach down to freezing.

It was originally created to protect the region's 47 natural flowing thermal springs. Originally named Hot Springs Reservation, it was renamed in 1921. It is the nation's oldest and smallest national park.

The park was created by Congress in 1832.

The entire 'Bathhouse Row' area is a National Historic Landmark District that contains the grandest collection of bathhouses of its kind in North America. Today the park protects eight historic bathhouses with the former luxurious Fordyce Bathhouse housing the park visitor center.

As the Nation's first federally protected reservation, Hot Springs National Park has been the hub of central Arkansas attractions since 1832.

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