Setting has long shaped the Hot Springs spa experience. The magnolia-lined avenue and landscaped lawns of the bathhouses create a pastoral atmosphere in the midst of the city, and just behind Bathhouse Row the Grand Promenade gives strollers an encounter with the lower slopes of Hot Springs Mountain. Exercise has long been part of the spa regimen, and in the past the park's trails provided a natural outdoor counterpoint to the vigorous mechanics of the bathhouses' hydrotherapy and gymnastics equipment. Today, their quiet beauty still offers opportunities for renewal of the spirit.