This narrative review deals with the distribution of thermal springs in Morocco, the classification of their thermal waters, and their health effects, with the aim to enhance them. All over the world, mineral waters of thermal springs have interesting therapeutic uses to cure some diseases unfortunately, such potential is underexploited in Morocco. This reserve comes from rainwater infiltrated into rocks and sediments to give rise to mineralized waters feeding many springs and having curative properties, which confer each spa-specific therapeutic indications, based on the medicinal properties of its waters. Photo above: Hot Springs National Park, courtesy National Park Service.Morocco has an important groundwater reserve, especially in the Atlas domain, corresponding to its largest water reservoir. There are eight bathhouses in the historic district of the park, although I'm not sure you want to dress like that fellow and his girls, top center, today. Take a drive or hike through the hills above the bathhouses and explore what the rest of Hot Springs National Park has to offer.Ĥ. Lots of famous people have visited the Fordyce, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor.ģ. They may be the best source of information about the Victorian era and the height of bathhouse days. Take the Fordyce Bathhouse or one of the other Ranger guided tours, including the Bathhouse Row Insider's Tour, and Discovering the Waters Tour. Reopened in 2008, the Quapaw was built in 1922, and is the newest option for a leisurely bath in the park.Ģ. Both the Buckstaff, which has been open since 1912, and no reservations are necessary. Hot Springs Mountain Tower - Located on Hot Springs Mountain Drive, this is the third tower to occupy the sight since 1877 and provides a great view of the mountains.ġ. You can take a ranger guided tour of them, see park staff for times, as well as view the exhibits in the visitor center, which is housed in the Fordyce Bathhouse.īathhouse Row and the Bathouse Row Historic District - Eight historic bathhouses, a visitor center, orientation movies, and guided tours. Several of the other bathhouses are under restoration, too. In 2008, the Quapaw Bathhouses reopened, joining the Buckstaff on Bathhouse Row as places to enjoy the present and past. But of course, the most unique part about this place is those baths and bathhouses, and in some of them, you can still partake in one. Nearly 5,000 acres are owned by the Park Service and it includes twenty-six miles of hiking trails, a great amount of places to take a leisurely drive, plus a tower that rises above the area and gives out a great view. Courtesy National Park Service.Īlthough many think of the park as the row of bathhouses, you'd be surprised to know how large a national park Hot Springs is. Below: Tulips between the Maurice and Hale bathhouses at Hot Springs National Park. Image above: Sketch of Hot Springs, 1873, James E. Government buys hot springs land as the first federal area protecting a natural resource.ġ884 - Hot Springs Creek is channeled and now runs under Central Avenue.ġ921 - Hot Springs Reservation is made a National Park. The origins of the waters are reported to be 4,000 years old.ġ803 - The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory and sends an expedition by William Dunbar and George Hunter to explore the springs.ġ832 - U.S. Late 1700s - Local Indian tribes used the hot springs water to bath. The springs have been used for nearly two hundred years and during a period of time from 1880-1940, were also a top spring training site for the baseball teams of the Chicago White Stockings, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, and others. All of these are gone, replaced in the early part of the 20th century by the larger and more elaborate structures which remain today. The first bathhouses were crude, wood, and hovered over the springs themselves. You can almost feel the old-time guys and gals walking from the houses. It was a resplendent Victorian resort with an Ozark mountain backdrop, glorious hotels, and those bathhouses. Take a gander at the print at the top of the page, from Woodward and Tiernan in 1888, showing what Hot Springs looked like then.
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