Hot Springs, United States Travel Blogs

Ouachita Mountain & Hot Springs, Arkansas
Jun 17, 2008 (40 photos)

... as we wanted a day or 2 of not traveling. Nice site by Lake Ouachita. The first day we went to the town of Hot Springs which has a street of really quaint Victorian bath houses from the early 1900's when "taking the water" was the vacation for the ...

Day of Rest
Jun 18, 2007

I needed a day of relaxation on this vacation so I drove to Desert Hot Springs and spent the day at a hotel with six pools.  I layed out in the sun and enjoyed the refreshing 110 degree rays. In the mid afternoon I drove to Los Angeles to spend the ...

Surprise
Sep 6, 2009

... of back roads highways, visiting small Arkansas towns or towns with cool downtown districts along the way, and one of those was Hot Springs, where my family happened to be due to the long Labor Day weekend. I decided to surprise them by just walking into ...

Geology Day
Jul 26, 2008 (30 photos)

... but not the best one in the park as you'll see later.  Our last stop took us to the Upper Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs.  We were in for a big treat.  Macneil led us off of the typical tourist trails to the breath-taking Narrow Gauge ...

Arkansas--Hot Springs, Little Rock, & Bill Clinton
Apr 29, 2009 (13 photos)

... 's boyhood home for a photo stop and then lunched at a better Mexican Restaurant called La Hacienda. Afterwards, we visited the Hot Springs National Park Visitors Center in the old Fordyce Bathhouse and walked part of the Promenade above Bathhouse Row. In ...

Jim & June's Odyssey 090410
Apr 10, 2009

... that passes centuries old farm houses, stone fences, large hardwoods, orchards, large lakes and a few resort towns - it was scenic. HOT SPRINGS, ARIZONA: It reminds us of Banff. We stayed at the JnJ RV Park, a cozy little place beside Mill Creek and ...

Anchorage to Manley Hot Springs
Jun 17, 2008 (28 photos)

... our first gravel encounter. 3000', tucked amongst the trees between the Tanana River and the Slough (a slow running branch fed by the hot springs) and nestled up against some hills. Set up for a pass, but then we lucked out and found downwind easily, so ...

Movin' along....
Jun 12, 2006

... going to attend. I'm finding the people to be very nice here more like some of the western states I've visited. Seems to be very laid back. Hot Springs is pretty interesting.. The springs are 146 degrees coming out of the ground. In the late 1800's ...

Crooked and Steep Roads Ahead
May 18, 2009 (10 photos)

... that runs just by the campsite that provides white noise to drown out the nearby road. We plan on seeing the Hot Springs later this afternoon and tomorrow along with the historic district of town. Love, Tom and Christine Total Miles Driven: ~ ...

Glass walls (let the outside in)
Feb 23, 2008 (40 photos)

Today was a "Betsy' day - a botanical garden day, though as it turned out there was some architectural interest for Malc too. True, it really isn't garden weather, having come north it is chilly there isn't much sun to spare but these gardens came highly ...

Steaming...
Feb 22, 2008 (38 photos)

... make the most of it!  We settled in "On Cloud Nine" at the top of the 'mountain' in a place called Hot Springs.    Every now and then we stumble into a real gem without actually meaning to and Hot Springs is definitely one ...

Arkansas
Jun 2, 2006 (4 photos)

Survived more thunderstorms and torrential rain to get here. Hot Springs is a bit like Bath in England, with Victorian bath houses and places for taking the waters. It is surrounded by woodland and is all very green (hardly surprising with all the rain ...

Fire in the Hills!
Sep 3, 2007 (7 photos)

... the brush by the river.  Bears!  That's not good.  We'd see more clues about bears later. We got to Lolo Hot springs, and things looked better. We had a cool campground near some cliffs and a river.  We climbed up into cliffs and ...

Hot Springs
Jun 17, 2006 (8 photos)

... excavate for six weeks each year and use the remainder of the year to process and analyze the findings. We spent the afternoon in Hot Springs at their local water park that is fed by the hot springs. This water park has been there since 1890 and touts ...

Itinerary, milageage, trail statistics, descriptio
Aug 24, 2009 (21 photos)

... lakes.  Saw lots of fish in the lakes. Day 10: Bear Creek Camp over Selden Pass to Muir Trail Ranch and Blarney Hot Springs. 13 miles. total 108 miles. Resupply point. hike down toward Lake Florence.  Resupply at ranch that had a lot of extra ...

Black Hills Of Dakota
May 14, 2008

... , and we were off again into a fairly stiff head wind for 2 days covering 139miles. We're in South Dakota in a town called Hot Springs. It's lovely, just like Scotland. We've had a lovely rest day today exploring the town by foot and swam in the natural ...

Trails, Peaks, Passes, Hiking, climbing, sitting..
Aug 26, 2009 (1 photos)

Mark:  Hiking this section of the trail was amazingly different than the last time I traveled through these mountains.  I recognized some areas but the season, the direction of hiking, the people, the location of the sun in the sky, the moon so ...

Take me back to the black hills
Aug 15, 2006 (5 photos)

Journal of Max and Paddys "Road to nowhere" ie Hazel and Brians "Once in a lifetime early retirement trip to the Western USA" Jan '06 Brian "They announced today that they were looking for volunteers for voluntary redundancy" Hazel "Well you wont ...

AAAAAHHH HOT MINERAL BATHS massage and mountains
Oct 6, 2009 (104 photos)

... wonderful National Park.  We didn't get to do any of the hiking that is offered in the mountains here.  The weather just didn't cooperate long enough.  We will come back for the rest of what Hot Springs National Park has to offer!!! 

Spring Time
Mar 14, 2009 (1 photos)

... will see purples, yellows and pink  flowers, blazing oranges on the branches of tall spindly bushes.  We spent March back in Desert Hot Springs, awaiting the return of our friends, Malina, Rhonda and Leah. They were in Canada for the month. We were also ...

In the Desert
Dec 25, 2008 (5 photos)

... , a swim. The skies are quite dark do I don't know if I will make my traditional Christmas hike. We've been in Desert Hot Springs for a week today. It was a bit tricky crossing LA, and getting around the mountains, but thanks to google earth I found the ...

Council Of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Jun 12, 2007 (1 photos)

Photo Album [FOR ENGLISH PLEASE SCROLL DOWN] Die welt veraendert sich in alle richtungen, je nachdem, welche impulse vorausgehen. Der mensch erlebt eine metamorphose des bewusstseins, der aufmerksamkeit, prioritaeten verschieben sich und jeder ...

Black Hills Part 2: Badlands and Hot Springs
Sep 12, 2008 (36 photos)

... park with a national park feel to it-buffalo, deer, burros, and birds galore with a changing landscape. Southern Black Hills has a lot to offer with Wind Cave, Hot Springs, a more temperate climate than other nearby areas, and some beautiful countryside.

Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Salt Lake
Sep 30, 2007

... I came into Yellowstone from the South, where the road split, I had to go West to get over to Old Faithful. When I left Mammoth Hot Springs, I headed East around the other side of the lake. I drove back down through the South entrance of the park and then ...

Little Dog Murders Illegal, Piolin Por La Manana
Oct 17, 2007 (2 photos)

LITTLE DOG CROOKS SHOOTS ILLEGAL ALIEN,  Some comparasons with EL PIOLIN POR LA MANANA, EDUARDO SOTELO  I will talk about little dog Crooks first, then about Eduardo Sotelo, Mr. El Piolin Por La Manana, a/k/a Mr. Sotelo.Robert  & ...

Sheriff's Dogs, Piolin Por La Manana, ICE Raids,
Oct 25, 2007

... need a warrant because of the refrigerator."  Maybe they were afraid the refrigerator had crossed the border illegally. In the United States of America where I grew up we did not allow police to waltz into houses without an order signed by a judge ...

The Great American Spa
Oct 24, 2009 (8 photos)

... , so when a town is named Hot Springs, it sparks our interest. We did an overnighter and drove from Wichita, Kansas to Hot Springs, Arkansas (State # 22, slowly getting there). Hot Springs is a town surrounded by state parks that is built around (you ...

Lake Ouachita, Hot Springs, AR
Sep 17, 2008

... , Hot Springs, AR; Thursday (9/11), Friday, Saturday, Sunday   Lake Ouachita is a 40,000 acre lake just west of Hot Springs Arkansas. Surrounded by State parks and public land, the area is heavily wooded and the lake sneaks in an out of hundreds of ...

Hot Springs
Apr 11, 2009 (1 photos)

... drove straight through Mississippi  from Columbus to Greenville and crossed the great river into Arkansas.  We just kept going to Hot Springs and got here late so I picked another cheap motel to crash in.  I hope to camp out tonight here in ...

had a fantastic camp out
Apr 12, 2009 (3 photos)

had a fantastic camp out at Gulpha Gorge last night. made pancakes this am, now a HUGE storm has moved in. headed for OK