LowestTravelDeals.com provides
any kind of Eureka Springs lodging from luxury 5-star hotels to
affordable B&B's and discount motels. Our search system provides
a wide variety of options to provide you with the best Eureka
Springs hotel deals and rates in a secure and instant transaction.
We guarantee you will find the right Eureka Springs accommodation
that fits your travel vacation.
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).
