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    Hot Springs

    National Park Arkansas

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  • Fordyce Bathhouse Visitor Center Closed

    The Fordyce Bathhouse Visitor Center is closed until Fall 2013 for a major maintenance project. A temporary park Visitor Center, along with the park store, are located in the Lamar Bathhouse at the south end of Bathhouse Row. Call for more information.

Physical Culture at the Fordyce Bathhouse

The Fordyce Bathhouse boasted the best gymnasium in the southwest in 1915. Watch a living history demonstration by Ranger Jeff Heitzman about how some of the equipment was used.

Indian Clubs
Dumbbells
Calisthenics Rod
Pully Weight System

Read more about physical culture.

Did You Know?

The Lamar Spring and collection pool, with brick walkway surrounding, with steam rising above.

Water emerging from the hot springs in Hot Springs National Park fell as rain when the pyramids of Egypt were built—4400 years ago!