Garland County, Arkansas

Mountain Pine is a city in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 770 at the 2010 United States Census. It is located immediately southeast of Lake Ouachita below the Blakely Mountain Dam. The city consists of five defined neighborhoods, Pinewood (north), South Mountain Pine, a business district (city hall, bank, post office, store), Cozy Acres (southwest) and Mountain View/Timberland area. Mountain Pine was founded as a company town in the late 1920s by Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, which operated a vast lumber mill on the town's east side. The mill was closed in 2006 by then-owners Weyerhaeuser, and later dismantled.

Mountain Pine High School is a public six-year high school located in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, United States. Mountain Pine is one of eight public high schools in Garland County and the only high school of the Mountain Pine School District. For 2010–11, the school enrollment was 279 students occupying grades 7 through 12.

Lake Ouachita State Park is a 360-acre (150 ha) public recreation area located ten miles (16 km) northwest of Hot Springs, on the eastern side of Lake Ouachita, which at 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) is the largest man-made lake located entirely within the state of Arkansas. In addition to its recreational offerings, the park preserves the site of the historic Three Sisters springs which were once touted for the curative properties of their mineral waters.

Glazypeau Creek is a stream in Garland County, in the U.S. state of Arkansas.Glazypeau is derived from the French "glaise à Paul", referring to a nearby salt lick.

The Mid-America Science Museum is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has more than 100 hands-on traveling and permanent exhibits. Many permanent exhibits were built in the early 1980s. Several of Rowland Emett's "things" (kinetic sculptures) are at the museum, including The Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basketweave Mark Two Gentleman’s Flying Machine, and several that appear in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as inventions of the character Caractacus Potts. One of the museum's permanent exhibits is the powerful conical Tesla coil, which can produce 1.5 million volts of electricity.

Piney is a census-designated place (CDP) in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 4,699 at the 2010 census.

The Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo is a privately owned zoo located on Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas.The farm houses but does not raise alligators and has done so since it was founded in 1902. The farm includes a small museum with a collection of mounted alligators, a souvenir shop but there’s no snack bar. It includes the mummified carcass purporting to be a "Merman", similar to ones held in Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums.The main alligator pit contains a small headstone, a memorial to somebody's fox terrier that was killed by alligators on that spot in 1906.

The Whittington Park Historic District encompasses a mainly residential area in northwestern Hot Springs, Arkansas. The district is centered on Whittington Park, a landscaped design of Frederick Law Olmsted built in the 1890s by the National Park Service. The park is lined to the north and south by a neighborhood built out in two phases, 1920–40 and 1950-1960s. These building periods are represented by a significant number of modest Craftsman and Ranch-style houses, built primarily for people of modest means. There are also several Queen Anne Victorians in the area, the most notable of which stands at 524 Whittington.The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

The Short-Dodson House is a historic house at 755 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in a combination of stone, brick, and wood. It has asymmetrical massing with projecting gables of varying sizes and shapes, and a round corner turret, with an undulating single-story porch wrapping around its south side. It was designed by Joseph G. Horn, and built c. 1902 for Dr. Omar Short, one of many doctors whose homes lined Park Avenue.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Cove Tourist Court is a historic former tourist accommodation at 771 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a U-shaped facility, a single story in height, built with wood framing and a stucco exterior in the International Style of architecture. Each of the nine units has an entrance sheltered by a shed roof with Craftsman brackets, and a single-car garage with a two-leaf hinged door. Built about 1937, it is a well-preserved example of the tourist court form in International Style. It has since been converted into residential apartments.The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

The Parkway Courts Historic District encompasses a historic tourist accommodation at 815 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a U-shaped tourist court, with 48 units and a building housing an office and manager's residence. The units come in three styles, some with larger sleeping and living spaces, and some with kitchenettes. Each unit is highlighted architecturally by a steeply pitched gable over the entrance. The buildings are brick. The units were built in 1943, and the manager's residence/office in 1950, after the original burned down. It is one of the city's oldest surviving tourist courts.The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

The Bellaire Court Historic District encompasses a former tourist court cottage complex at 637 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The complex was built in the 1930s, when the advent of vacation travel by automobile rose to prominence. The complex is roughly L-shaped, with a long leg of the L perpendicular to the road, and the short leg at the rear, facing Magnolia Street. It is a single story structure with Craftsman styling, built out of wood and finished in stone veneer and brick trim. At the front of the complex is a manager's house, with cottage-style units lined behind it, each with a space that was originally a garage, but has since been filled in as part of a conversion to full-time residential units.The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.