Destination Hot Springs | Hot Springs National Park Arkansas

Follow our cameras as we fly, twist, turn, and soar through Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas!

It's our party, and we'll have our cake and eat it too! We're celebrating 20 years of 98 feet, and we want YOU to join us in blowing out the candles. Join us on March 17, and check out our list of everything you need to know before you go to the 20th Annual World's Shortest St.

The World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade — the event perfectly encapsulating the quirkiness of Hot Springs, Arkansas — turns 20 this year! Come March 17, we will be celebrating 20 years of the shortest parade that captures the green hearts of travelers near and far.

English Novelist Jane Austen said, “to love is to burn, to be on fire.” Rock ‘n roll legend Elvis Presley said, “you light my morning sky with burning love.” And Rege-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor, in the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, showed us what it means to “burn” for one another. 

Hot Springs most famous attractions, Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, Garvan Woodland Gardens, Magic Springs, Mid-America Science Museum, and Hot Springs National Park, are must-see spots when visiting the Spa City.

It’s not “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, the holidays are unmistakably here. The town is shining brighter than the nose that guided Santa’s sleigh that one foggy Christmas Eve. Here, we have holiday lights by the millions. 

November is here, and it’s time for the most sublime time of the year. Halloween shenanigans are over, and the pumpkin spice nuts filled to the brim. Now we can start getting ready for one of the most highly-anticipated events all year. That’s right — November is Feast Month.

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all." - Stanley Horowitz … Hot Springs offers something to enjoy any season! But when fall comes around, a golden cloak of fall foliage paints the Spa City. Chasing fall colors?

The crisp Autumn air howls through the trees, little ghouls don their best spooky costumes, and head to Hot Springs for a spooky good time. Haunts are around every corner in Hot Springs during the Halloween season, and we have an incredible list of everything not to miss!

Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, is a beautiful place with flowing waters, luscious nature and friendly faces — but today we are here to talk about our dark side. Every place has one, and we embrace our local thana tourism (also known as dark tourism).

When planning your visit to Hot Springs, keep in mind - there's always something exciting happening, year round! From comic-conventions with out of this world cosplays, to mountain bike festivals, to thouroughbred horse races and of course, the World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Spa-Con 6.0 is almost here! There will be capes, masks, wigs, elaborate hand-made cosplays. There will be comics, illustrated novels, and fan art. There will be video gaming, table-top gaming and even a "nerd dating game." Spa-Con is more than just comics sold over folding tables.