Hot Springs the Gateway to Lake Ouachita |
● Hot Springs Bathhouse and Spas ● Hot Springs the 1st National Park in AmericaHot Springs, Arkansas the gateway to Lake Ouachita. Only a short drive up the Ouachita River to Blakely Mountain Dam, the dam that forms Lake Ouachita the largest lake entirely in Arkansas. Hot Springs is a unique resort town located in the hills of the Ouachita Nation Forest. The tenth largest city in Arkansas.Hot Springs is also home to Oaklawn Park, a thoroughbred racetrack which has been in operation since 1904. The meet which is annually held from January through mid April each year is sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Season" and features the "Racing Festival of the South" during the last week of the racing season each April.
Hot Springs gets its name from the natural thermal water that flows from 47 springs on the western slope of Hot Springs Mountain in the historic bath house row. About a million gallons of 143-degree water flow from the 47 naturally flowing thermal springs on the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain each day. Hot Springs National Park is the smallest and oldest of the parks in the National Park System, dating back to 1832, when Congress established the first federally protected reservation in the nation's history, 32 years ahead of Yellowstone. Hot Springs Reservation, which was renamed Hot Springs National Park in 1921, originally was created by Congress to protect the Hot Springs. Studies by National Park Service scientists have determined through carbon dating that the water that reaches the surface in Hot Springs fell as rainfall in an as-yet undetermined watershed 4,000 years ago. The water percolates very slowly down through the earth’s surface until it reaches superheated areas deep in the crust and then rushes rapidly to the surface to emerge from the 47 hot springs. In 1818, the Quapaw Indians ceded the land that had the hot springs to the United States in a treaty. After Arkansas became its own territory in 1819, the Arkansas Territorial Legislature requested in 1820 that the springs and adjoining mountains be set aside as a federal reservation. Twelve years later, in 1832, the Hot Springs Reservation was created by the US Congress, granting federal protection of the thermal waters. The Reservation was renamed Hot Springs National Park in 1921. Hot Springs National Park is the oldest federal reserve in the United States. Copyright©
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