👂🐊 The Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo is the oldest existing attraction in Hot Springs, opening in 1902. In 1918, Babe Ruth launched a 573 ft-long, mammoth home run from Whittington Park that landed on the fly, inside the Arkansas Alligator Farm. It was said, "kicking up no end of commotion among the 'gators'." (Although, that is probably just dramatized folklore.) Regardless, the gators are still there today, along with a menagerie of other creatures & a novelty merman (a story for a