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The Best Attractions In Southwest Arkansas

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The Southwest Conference was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma and Arkansas as well. For most of its history, the core members of the conference were Texas-based schools plus one in Arkansas: Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, Texas Christian University, Baylor University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Texas. After a long period of stability, Arkansas left in 1991 to join the Southeastern Conference. Five years later, the conferen...
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The Best Attractions In Southwest Arkansas

  • 2. Crater of Diamonds State Park Murfreesboro Arkansas
    Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre plowed field, the world's only diamond-bearing site accessible to the public. Diamonds have continuously been discovered in the field since 1906, including the Strawn-Wagner Diamond. The site became a state park in 1972 after the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism purchased the site from the Arkansas Diamond Company and Ozark Diamond Mines Corporation, who had operated the site as a tourist attraction previously.
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  • 3. Anthony Chapel Hot Springs
    St. Anthony Hall is an American fraternity and literary society. Its 11 active chapters go by different names on different campuses, including Saint Anthony Hall, The Order of St. Anthony, the Fraternity of Delta Psi , St. A's, the Hall and the Number Six Club. Its first chapter was founded at Columbia University on January 17, 1847, the feast day of St. Anthony. As of 2016, nearly all chapters of St. Anthony Hall have gone co-ed, only three remain all-male. At both the University of North Carolina and Ole Miss, St. Anthony Hall was the first campus fraternity to admit African American members. The chapter at Yale University was the first of the national fraternity to do so, and would later also be the first to admit women in 1971. In 1879, Baird's Manual characterized the fraternity as ha...
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  • 6. Hot Springs National Park Hot Springs
    There are hot springs on all continents and in many countries around the world. Countries that are renowned for their hot springs include Honduras, Canada, Chile, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Romania, Fiji and the United States, but there are interesting and unique hot springs in many other places as well.
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  • 8. Lake Ouachita Hot Springs
    The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge is a 64,902 acre wildlife refuge located in south-central Arkansas in Ashley, Bradley, and Union counties. It is the world's largest green tree reservoir. The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge is a wetlands complex near Lake Jack Lee, which is located on the confluence of the Saline and Ouachita Rivers. It is made up of various streams, creeks, lakes, and sloughs. In addition to the wetland lowlands the refuge has areas of pine and upland hardwood forests. The refuge is home to migratory and resident waterfowl as well as marsh and water birds. The park is also home to a large population of red-cockaded woodpeckers and is a habitat of the bald eagle and American alligator. The refuge also contains over 200 Native American archaeological sites, prima...
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  • 9. Magic Springs Theme and Water Park Hot Springs
    Magic Springs Theme and Water Park is an amusement park and water park located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, about 50 miles from Little Rock. A single price admission includes all day use of the rides and attractions in both parks. The park is open weekends from April through October and daily late-May through mid-August. Magic Springs Theme and Water Park was opened in 1977, closed in 1995, and reopened in 2000. Magic Springs Theme and Water Park is owned by EPR Properties and operated by Premier Parks, LLC.
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