{"id":222,"date":"2009-09-12T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14886.com\/archestozion\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:42:38","slug":"hot-springs-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Hot Springs National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>This has got to be one of the most unique National Parks in the system. A downtown area with decades old facilities that collected water from natural hot springs in the woods,   and piped it through an amazing feat of engineering to a seres of spas and bathhouses that people came to for their medicinal properties. You basically walk around and tour the area and the buildings. I got so caught up in all the history that I didn&#8217;t understand \u00a0most of the park includes miles around the downtown,   and includes many of the natural areas &#8211; including the springs themselves. And you can go see them. But you can&#8217;t bathe in them. Not in the woods at least. Some of the downtown facilities still function commercially though.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite things to do here<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tour the bath houses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Things I want to come back to do<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camp<\/li>\n<li>Hiking trails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fun Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the oldest unit in the National Parks System. 40 years older than Yellowstone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>National Park Service Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hosp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hosp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NPS Map<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=hosp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/hafe\/hfc\/carto-detail.cfm?Alpha=hosp<\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the most unique National Parks in the system. A downtown area with decades old facilities that collected water from natural hot springs in the woods, and piped it through an amazing feat of engineering to a seres of spas and bathhouses that people came to for their medicinal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all_parks","category-visited","tag-arkansas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acadiatozion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}