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HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK 



Oldest of all the national parks is Hot Springs, located in the Ozark 

 Mountains of Arkansas. Even before the coming of the white man this 

 region was known for the healing qualities of its waters, which flowed in 

 warm springs, much appreciated by the Indians. As early as 1832 the 

 federal government, to make these waters available to all persons at nominal 

 cost, established this national park. The area comprises 912 acres, including in 

 all 46 hot springs. 



A handsome and prosperous city has grown up at the site of the springs. 

 There are nine bathhouses on the government reservation, and ten more in 

 the city, supplied with water from the park springs. The government analysis 

 of the waters shows them to be of mineral qualities comparable to the famous 

 waters of Spa, in Europe. 



This interesting and useful park is reached via the Rock Island and 

 Missouri Pacific lines or by automobile over some of the best highways in 

 the South. Hot Springs has several famous resort hotels which are operated 

 on high standards of service. 



PLATT NATIONAL PARK 



Platt National Park was created to preserve sulphur and other beneficent 

 springs, both hot and cold, which gush from an area of one and one-half 

 square miles in southern Oklahoma. 



WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK 



Wind Cave National Park includes a remarkable limestone cavern in 

 the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota. The park has an area of 

 sixteen square miles. 



SULLYS HILL NATIONAL PARK 



Sullys Hill National Park in North Dakota is a picturesque forested 

 region bordering on a lake. It is a wild animal preserve and has historic 

 associations. 



MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT 



Named in honor of John Muir, explorer, naturalist, and writer, Muir 

 Woods National Monument was established by a presidential proclamation 

 on January 9, 1908. The monument preserves a remarkable grove of red 

 woods nestling on the south slope of Mount Tamalpais, in a secluded valley 

 less than two hours' ride from San Francisco. It comprises 128 acres and 

 was the gift of the Honorable William Kent and his wife, Elizabeth Thatcher 

 Kent, and has been described as "one of the most friendly, easily approach 

 able woods, centuries old, permanently preserved for the benefit and enjoy 

 ment of the people." 



These tall and noble trees narrowly escaped being cut into shingles and 



