Extended meaning praise, award is from 1852. Also see -ade. Earlier was accoll (mid-14c.), from Old French acolee an embrace, kiss, especially that given to a new-made knight, from verb acoler. The French noun in the 16c. was transformed to accolade, with the foreign suffix.
Hot Springs National Park is adjacent to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It gets its name from the hot spring water that flows down the western side an eponymous mountain. At just more than 5,500 acres, it is the smallest national park by area, but it receives 1.3 million visitors a year.
In the late 1800s and well into the 19th century, many county hot springs became wildly popular vacation resorts in which people stayed for weeks at a time. The Geysers area in Northern Sonoma County, Napa County, and Lake County represents the largest geothermal field in the world.