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Reviewed guide · Southwest

Hot Springs National Park

Unit code HOSP. Figures retrieved 2026-11-06. Official alerts, fees, and closures are not copied here.

Show on the atlas
Pale-colored bricks make a zig-zag pattern along the sides of a broad, red brick walkway.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS, 2010. Asset record.
States on the system list
Arkansas
Guide region
Southwest. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
April 20, 1832

Table note: proclaimed Hot Springs Reservation; redesignated 1921

Gross area acres
5,554.15

NPS fee acres: 5,005.21. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
34.5292, -93.0300

Containing shoreline polygon: Arkansas. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is in June, July, or August

Highest mean: June. Lowest mean: January. Mean annual total across complete years: 1,969,658 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 97,599 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 140,570 mean recreation visitsMarch: 188,420 mean recreation visitsApril: 174,956 mean recreation visitsMay: 172,407 mean recreation visitsJune: 247,765 mean recreation visitsJuly: 227,239 mean recreation visitsAugust: 201,197 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 135,070 mean recreation visitsOctober: 145,716 mean recreation visitsNovember: 128,834 mean recreation visitsDecember: 109,885 mean recreation visitsJFMAMJJASOND
Mean of reported recreation visits by calendar month, 2016–2025. Gold is the lowest mean and rust is the highest. A missing bar was not reported. This is a historic average, not a live crowd count.
Monthly recreation-visit record
MonthMeanLowest yearHighest yearYears in the mean
January97,59940,840171,28310
February140,57051,743244,67810
March188,420124,670299,36110
April174,956103,658290,65510
May172,40745,894311,16510
June247,765144,405363,08310
July227,239139,005382,40610
August201,197121,300263,02110
September135,07076,124169,34010
October145,716103,447231,61810
November128,83496,740251,83710
December109,88574,906201,81110

How to use this guide

Hot Springs is the park whose anniversary-table line reaches back to 1832, and the table’s own note says that date marks a reservation that was later redesignated. Do not read 1832 as the year the bathhouses took their present form. The redesignation note is part of the fact.

The park is listed in Arkansas, and it sits in a city in a way many of the western parks do not. A small gross area and a visitation record that may not swing like a mountain park are planning clues, not a promise of an easy day. Services, water, and what the historic buildings currently offer belong on the park’s pages.

Official pages

These links were checked when the site was built. A working link is not a live feed. If a standard address did not respond, it is omitted.

Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.