The light clink of utensils hitting plates and soft voices in easy conversation float down from the restaurant on the top hotel balcony. Looking down from my own outdoor stoop on the second floor, I spot two small deer foraging on the immaculately groomed grounds below. It s the perfect end to a day that started with a hike from a trailhead located directly across from the entrance and parking lot of my historic hotel, the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs.