Arkansas

ARKANSAS

Alma
Spinach Capital of the World (Popeye statue)

Atkins
Picklefest (deepfried; May)

Bauxite
Bauxite Museum (aluminum’s role in WWII)

Bentonville
Wal-Mart VC (Sam Walton story, Air Gun Museum)

Berryville
Saunders Memorial Museum (eclectic: Annie Oakley’s gun, Arabian sheik’s tent)

Cinton?
National Championship Chuckwagon Race (week before Labor Day)
bring lawn chairs and picnic (mule trials)

Emerson
WC Rotary Tiller Races (June)

Eudora
Henry and Rubye Connerly Museum (grocery/ feed store of yesteryear)

Eureka Springs
Frog Fantasies Mus (all but the real ones)
Hammond Museum of Bells (thousands)
Miles Musical Museum (machines: hurdy-gurdys, Wurlitzers; circus stuff)

Fort Smith
Patent Model Museum (blueprints and miniature working models)
World’s Largest Mr. Peanut

Heber Springs
Cardboard Boat Race (July; Freers Ferry Lake; 70 boats, 1-8 crew, cheap to enter)
Hope
Watermelon Festival

Hot Springs
Mrs Miller’s Chicken and Steak House
Granny’s Kitchen (breakfast)
Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa
Fordyce Bathhouse VC (history of therapies)
Tiny Town (everything in miniature)
Buckstaff (baths)

Little Rock
Museum of Discovery

Lonoke
Anderson Minnow Farms (minnow capital of the world)

Mount Ida
Quartz Crystal digging

Mountain Home
Nettie’s Cafe (strawberry pie)

Mountain View
Bean Festival and Outhouse Race (Oct)

Pine Bluff
Band Museum (trombones plus)

Ponca
Lost Valley Canoe and Lodging (cabins, Buffalo River)

Pottsville
Potts Inn Museum (a hundred years of ladies’ hats)

Stuttgart
Duck-calling world championship (Nov)
(Rice and Duck Capitals of the World)
Agricultural Museum

?
Bob Burns--bazooka
Ozark Highlands Trail (waterfalls, narrow canyons)
Richland Creek Wilderness (waterfalls)
Onyx Cave (Button and Doll Museum)
Buffalo Nat River (Buffalo Point to Buffalo City or Pruitt to Gilbert)