Though Hot Springs National Park, established because of a remarkable array of 47 thermal springs, is the most famous of Arkansas National Parks, five additional U.S. National Park Service units are located within the state. Travelers can experience the natural beauty of the country's first national river; learn the stories of the first permanent European settlement in
the lower Mississippi River valley and of a
frontier outpost on the nation's border with the
Indian Territory until 1907; and visit a
civil rights landmark and a key
Civil War battlefield west of the Mississippi River.