Hot Springs National Park - Nature and Science

The park and its surrounding mountains exhibit a south-central United States pine-oak-hickory forest ecosystem. The park"s vegetation, thermal waters, cold water springs, bathhouses and associated cultural features, foot trails, prehistoric and historic novaculite quarries, and general physiography combine to form an almost 5400 acre area of resource preservation and interpretation that is under the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the federal government. Another 672.69 acres are within the park boundary but are not federally owned. The city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, with an approximate population of 33,000, lies immediately outside the park and exerts a significant influence on it.

Environmental Factors
Natural Features
Geothermal Areas