Welcome to Hot Springs National Park (HSNP). Without an entrance booth or gate, and with attractions both indoors and outdoors, this isn’t your typical national park. With its abundant natural resource of hot spring water, people come here to do the Hot Springs Soak, a centuries-old bathing tradition, in ornate bathhouses. HSNP boasts 47 springs, 27 of which are used for bathing, soaking and drinking. Loyalists like to tout HSNP as the country’s first national park. In a way, they have a point. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson named it the country’s first federal reservation — a forerunner to the National Park Service, which Congress established in 1916. (For more on Hot Springs, check out my Moon Memphis guidebook.) Read Article Here