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Hot Springs National Park Volcanoes

Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs, AR · Ouachita Mountains

Hot Springs National Park threads through the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, where 47 thermal springs send roughly 700,000 gallons of 143-degree water flowing up through the Ouachita Mountains each day. Stroll Bathhouse Row, the country's largest collection of early 20th-century bathhouses, and soak the old-fashioned way inside the marble-and-tile Buckstaff or Quapaw. Protected since 1832, it predates Yellowstone as a federal reservation.

Blanchard Springs Caverns Caves

Blanchard Springs Caverns

Mountain View, AR · Ozark National Forest

The only show cave the U.S. Forest Service runs, and it earns the title: 366 feet down, past 686 stair steps on the Discovery Trail, a stream rises cold and clear at a steady 58 degrees and threads through chambers the size of cathedrals. The Giant Flowstone is the showstopper, 164 feet of golden calcite spilling like frozen water into a still green pool, while soda straws, rimstone dams, and the white-draped Ghost Room fill out the half-mile Dripstone tour. Bring a layer, take the lantern-lit walk slow, and watch a living cave still build itself one drip at a time.