1. Oklahoma
   Colorado
2. Arkansas

Hot Springs National Park is located in Arkansas. The city of Hot Springs and the park were named for the natural hot spring that bubbles out of the ground there.

1. 5,500 acres
   8,300 acres
2. 10,700 acres

Hot Springs is the smallest national park in the United States.

1. 39
   47
2. 56

Large volumes of mineral-rich water flow from 47 natural hot springs in the park.

1. almost a million gallons a day
   almost three quarters of a million gallons a day
2. almost half a million gallons a day

Almost a million gallons of hot water a day flow from the springs in the park. The park service collects, cools, and then supplies this hot water to bathhouses both inside and outside the park.

1. 162 degrees Fahrenheit
   155 degrees Fahrenheit
2. 143 degrees Fahrenheit

Water flows at 143 degrees Fahrenheit (62 degrees C) from spring in Hot Springs Mountain. This mountain also has some of the finest hardwood forests in Arkansas.

1. Appalachian Mountains
   Ouachita Mountains
2. Ozark Mountains

The mountain range is called the Ouachita Mountains. This range spans west-central Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma and northeast Texas.

1. Buckstaff Bathhouse
   Delworth Bathhouse
2. Fordyce Bathhouse

The Fordyce Bathhouse is a restored spa where visitors can see authentic stained-glass windows, assorted statuary, gleaming pipes, and luxurious hot tubs. Patrons of yesteryear undertook three-week therapy regimes of daily hot baths and massages.

1. baseball
   football
2. hockey

Hot Springs was the premier baseball spring training site from the 1880s-1940s. Many teams, including the Chicago White Socks, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox used Hot Springs for their spring training camps.

1. 18 miles
   24 miles
2. 32 miles

This national park offers more than 24 miles (39 kilometers) of hiking and bridle trails that wander through beautiful forests consisting of oak, hickory, flowering dogwood, eastern redbud, southern magnolia, and shortleaf pine.

1. fossil pits
   prehistoric ruins
2. birdwatchers paradise

The park is nationally known as a birdwatchers paradise. Local birdwatchers have counted almost 150 different species of birds in the hills and valleys of Hot Springs National Park.

1. Hernan Cortes
   Hernando de Soto
2. Juan Ponce de Leon

Hernando de Soto, who lead the first expedition across the southeastern United States, was said to have taken a bath in the hot springs 1541.

1. An investigation in to using the spring waters to heat commercial buildings was conducted.
   An investigation was conducted on the unique properties of the spring waters.
2. An investigation was conducted in to false claims in regards to healing powers of drinking bottled hot spring water.

The unique properties of the waters were investigated in 1804 under authority of Jefferson.

1. 1832
   1834
2. 1837

Jackson set aside the springs as a special federal reservation in 1832, a full 40 years before Yellowstone National Park was created.

1. Delworth Bathhouse
   Fordyce Bathhouse
2. Buckstaff Bathhouse

Buckstaff Bathhouse is the only bathhouse still in operation on Bathhouse Row (Central Avenue) where anyone can take a natural hot spring bath. Central Avenue still has a multitude of elegant bathhouses modeled after the finest European spas.

1. 1900
   1921
2. 1943

The Hot Springs protected area was established as a national park in 1921, shortly after World War I.

1. The Cascade
   Belknap
2. Sembawang

The Cascade is the only hot spring in the park that is in its natural state. An alga growing in the water coats the rocks in a bright blue-green.

1. 1000
   2500
2. 4000

The water flowing from the Cascade likely fell as rain as much as 4,000 years ago. The water seeped through fractures in the Earth's surface, heated up as it passed over hot rocks deep within the Earth, and eventually returned to the surface through faults in the rocks.

1. aplite
   tufa
2. kyanite

The unusual white porous rock is called tufa. The lower slopes of Hot Springs Mountain were covered with the rock before professional landscapers covered most of it over with tons of dirt, shrubs and grass.

1. one inch a year
   one inch every five years
2. one inch every eight years

The new tufa rock that is being created by the Cascade hot spring is building up at the rate of one inch every eight years.

1. algae
   copper sulfate
2. lichen

The bright blue-green color on the rock is algae growing on its surface. Algae is the only plant species that can survive in such hot water.