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Hot Springs Arkansas
Your Guide to Hotels, Restaurants, Tickets, Tours and More!
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About Hot Springs

The "Valley of the Vapors," as it was known when first discovered by Hernando de Soto, was a popular destination long before Americans settled here. Travelers stopped to bathe in steaming springs naturally heated to 147 degrees and rumored to have magical healing powers. The city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, sprang up to... [read more]
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Hot Springs Factoid
Hot Springs National Park doesn't get official credit but, in a sense, is our country's first national park. In 1832, decades before Yosemite, the area was set aside as 'Hot Springs Reservation.' The legislation that did so was much like that which produces national parks; the government just didn't call them that yet. Finally given official distinction as a national park in 1921, Hot Springs settles for its other blue ribbon title 'America's First Resort.'
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