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	Greers Ferry Lake Greers Ferry Dam stands at the foot of beautiful Round Mountain and in the shadow of Sugar Loaf Mountain. Numerous parks offer modern camping and recreational opportunities. Marinas provide rental services, food and other supplies and services. Lake fishing is good throughout the year. A trout hatchery furnishes trout for the Little Red River flowing out of the dam. Hiking trails give visitors a beautiful natural view of the lake and its surroundings. Activities on and around Greers Ferry Lake will keep anyone busy.

	Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery The hatchery provides rainbow trout and brook trout for stocking in the White River Basin in Arkansas and the Blue and Illinois Rivers in Oklahoma. Visitor can enjoy trout fishing in the adjacent Little Red River, visit the visitor center and aquarium and take a tour of the hatchery. Earth Day celebrations take place in mid-April. The children's fishing tour is scheduled for early June. The annual Greers Ferry Lake and Little Red River cleanup takes place in early September.

	Holla Bend NWR Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge includes agricultural fields, bottomland forest, and open water. Croplands, moist-soil areas and forest are managed to provide habitat for a wide variety of wildlife. The refuge supports wintering populations of up to 60,000 ducks and 20,000 geese each year. Over 240 species of birds have been recorded on the refuge. Mammals native to the area are abundant including white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, foxes, and bobcats. Holla Bend NWR provides environmental education, interpretation, and wildlife-oriented recreation for thousands of visitors annually. An eight mile auto tour route and wildlife trails allow visitors to see and experience the different habitats and the species living there.

	Hot Springs National Park Congress established Hot Springs Reservation on April 20, 1832 to protect hot springs flowing from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain. This makes it the oldest park currently in the National Park System--40 years older than Yellowstone National Park. People have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for more than two hundred years to treat rheumatism and other ailments. The reservation eventually developed into a well-known resort nicknamed "The American Spa" because it attracted not only the wealthy but also indigent health seekers from around the world. Today the park protects eight historic bathhouses with the former luxurious Fordyce Bathhouse housing the park visitor center. The entire "Bathhouse Row" area is a National Historic Landmark District that contains the grandest collection of bathhouses of its kind in North America. By protecting the 47 hot springs and their watershed, the National Park Service continues to provide visitors with historic leisure activities such as hiking, picnicking, and scenic drives. Hot Springs Reservation became Hot Springs National Park by a Congressional name change on March 4, 1921.

	John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake

	Lake Greeson Lake Greeson, AR, on the Little Missouri River, has many hunting and fishing opportunities as well as camping, swimming and boating. The lake is a wintering site for bald eagles. A nature trail allows the visitor to reach the site of a cinnabar mine. The 31-mile-long cycle trail and the Chimney Rock geological formation are also located at Lake Greeson.

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