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State ARKANSAS EUREKA SPRINGS (regional info) > Tourism & Travel Guide: Eureka Springs BASIN PARK HOTEL BEST WESTERN EUREKA INN BEST WESTERN INN OF THE OZARKS BUDGET HOST INN EUREKA SPRINGS COMFORT INN EUREKA SPRINGS DAYS INN EUREKA SPRINGS Eureka Springs Travelodge Howard Johnson Express RODEWAY INN SWISS HOLIDAY RESORT Super 8 Eureka Springs Picturesque EUREKA SPRINGS , set on steep mountain slopes in Arkansas's northwestern corner, began life a century ago as a health center. As that role declined, its striking location turned it into a regular tourist destination, given a kitsch edge by its specialty in weddings and honeymoons. It's an enjoyable place to stroll around, filled with tasteful Victorian buildings, and you can ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway through wooded Ozark valleys. Rolling stock includes a magnificent "cabbage-head" wood-burning locomotive, and trips depart on the hour from the depot at 299 N Main St (mid-April to Oct Mon-Sat 10am-4pm; tel 501/253-9623). Three miles east of town, an incredible religious complex includes the seven-story Christ of the Ozarks - a surreal statue of Jesus with a 60ft arm span - a Bible Museum ($2.50) and a Sacred Arts Center ($2.50). Elna M. Smith, whose Foundation runs the whole show, was so worried that the holy sites of the Middle East would be destroyed by war that she decided to build replicas in the Ozarks, safe from Arab attacks. Minibuses whisk visitors through the two-and-a-half hour New Holy Land Tour (last Fri in April to last Sat in Oct Mon- Sat 9am-3.30pm, Wed 9am-12.45pm; $9 admission includes all attractions) past scaled-down versions of the Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan and Golgotha. Christ's last days on earth are re-enacted with a cast of almost two hundred in the Great Passion Play , in a 4100-seat amphitheater (last Fri in April to Oct nightly except Sun and Wed 8.30pm, after August 7.30pm; $15.75-17.75; tel 1-800/882-7529). OTHER POPULAR DESTINATIONS IN ARKANSASArkadelphia Batesville Bentonville Blytheville Brinkley Clarksville Conway El Dorado Eureka Springs Fayetteville Forrest City Fort Smith Hope Hot Springs Jacksonville Jonesboro Little Rock Mountain Home Pine Bluff Rogers Russellville Searcy Springdale Stuttgart Texarkana West Memphis |
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