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Hot Springs National Park
Short Cut Trail
color photo of Shortcut Trail trailhead sign. Sign is made of dark brown metal with gold lettering and map of trail

As the name implies, this path is a short cut between Dead Chief Trail and the Hot Springs Mountain picnic area. Climbing steeply from Dead Chief Trail, this trail completed the Oertel Red Trail and was once a popular trail for horseback riders.

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Read more about the Oertel System of Graduated Exercise.

 
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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 14:57 EST