Bathhouse Row

Visitors to Hot Springs National Park will soon have more opportunities to experience one of the city’s longest-running traditions. Hot Springs National Park has announced a new 10-year concession contract for Buckstaff Bathhouse that will expand access to traditional bathing …

Feature image: The Arlington stands watch over Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs. (Photo courtesy of Arkansas Tourism) Finishing touches on the Arlington 4.0 are still to come, but the 11-story model of Spanish colonial revival architecture in downtown Hot Springs …

Traveling for business has been a part of the human condition from, well, almost from the very start. It’s believed the Lascaux caves in France, which date to 1500 B.C., were “developed” to accommodate members of other tribes. And some …

Hot Springs was on its way to a record year for visitors when the coronavirus shut things down in March of last year. January and February numbers were up more than 17 percent from 2019 when the pandemic set in, …

Bathhouse Row and the natural geothermally heated water is perhaps what makes Hot Springs such an acclaimed city, and Mayor Patrick McCabe and his wife, Ellen McCabe, have recently reinvented one of the bathhouses on the famous street. Hale Bathhouse, …

Demolition on the Hale Bathhouse in Hot Springs was completed last week, and renovations have begun in earnest on what will be Hotel Hale. Ellen and Mayor Pat McCabe closed on a $1.25 million loan earlier this month, almost four …

By Rob Moritz | Photography by David Yerby Like the mythological phoenix obtaining new life by rising from its ashes, Hot Springs is reinventing itself in the aftermath of the 2014 fire that heavily damaged the historic Majestic Hotel. “My view …