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Hot Springs National Park
Peak Trail
spring scene of grassy hillside with cement trail on lower right and two green boxes sticking up from ground to left of trail, visitors sitting on a wooden park bench in front of a cedar tree on far left, with wooded hillside in background

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Hot springs collection boxes can be seen along the lower Peak Trail.

The Peak Trail is a short but rewarding trail. The trail begins at Tufa Terrace Trail above the Grand Promenade and steeply ascends Hot Springs Mountain to the Hot Springs Mountain Tower. The green boxes along the way are springs water collection boxes. Avoid the path to the right at the first mountain drive crossing; it dead-ends just out of sight at the door of a pump station.

The Peak Trail ends at the tower, but has a short side trail to the pcinic area. Be sure to venture up the tower to enjoy a breath-taking view of the city. There is a short spur path near bottom of the Peak Trail, leading down to the Grand Promenade a few yards north of the place where you started.

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Pres. Roosevelt is in an open touring car on Fountain St. in front of the Arlington Hotel. A crowd surrounds the car.  

Did You Know?
On June 10, 1936, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Hot Springs National Park and toured the Fordyce Bathhouse as part of the Arkansas centennial celebration. FDR used the baths at Warm Springs, Georgia, on a regular basis to relieve his polio. He never bathed in Hot Springs.

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Last Updated: March 11, 2008 at 14:50 EST