As its name suggests, Hot Springs takes its name after the city’s multiple hot springs in the Ouachita Mountains. It is home to the Hot Springs National Park, the oldest federal reserve in the United States. The city is also famous for its Major League Baseball Spring training, speakeasies and gangsters like Al Capone, horse racing at Oaklawn Park, the Army and Navy Hospital, and 42nd President Bill Clinton, who spent much of his young life in the city. Other points of interest in the city include the Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo, Central Avenue, Garvan Woodland Gardens, and Lake Catherine and Lake Hamilton.
