Last weekend the bf took me on a fall vacation that I have been wanting to go on for the last couple of years and I was beyond excited y'all! We left early Friday morning for Eureka Springs, AR to stay at the gorgeous and perfectly Halloween appropriate Crescent Hotel and to waste away our days enjoying the fall foliage and walking the quaint streets.
Below is a spooky image of the hotel many moons ago. It just has this sort of eeriely beautiful quality that I loved.
The Crescent and Eureka Springs in general are pretty popular come October. The hotel is famous for its many ghosts and was actually named one of the America's five most haunted hotels. It was also featured on season II of Ghost Hunters.
The hotel sits up on a hill overlooking the beautiful ozark landscape and the town of Eureka Springs. The grounds themselves are great for taking pictures and exploring.
We loved that the chimneys of the hotel still retained some of their purple paint, which was done by the one-time owner of the building, Norman Baker, who used it as his cancer hospital. His favorite color was purple and at the time of his occupancy, apparently most of the interior of the hotel was also painted purple.
From the minute you walk into the lobby of the hotel, you feel like you have stepped back in time. No fancy swipe keys for the door to your room - only the real deal.
We stayed in room 215, situated just across from one of the most haunted rooms in the hotel, room 218.
One of the most popular draws to the hotel in October are the ghost tours. I captured the above image during our tour. Do you see the white floating circles in the photo? Ghost hunters call these orbs and some believe they are spirits manifested as balls of light or energy. These could technically be specks of dust that were in front of my lens when I took the photo, but I take many, many pictures and have only had a couple other photos have these kind of white balls in them. Kind of spooky and kind of fascinating at the same time.
It was a great trip, perfect for a fall getaway before Halloween. So, if you haven't been, I definitely recommend it! And the drive through all the beautiful ozark fall foliage makes it even more worth while.
I have more photos to share from Eureka Springs iteself and a fun little stop that we made on the way back home, so I'll share those with you tomorrow!
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