Arkansas

This is a list of possible things to check out if I’m in the area. It includes my Arkansas Bucket List items, which are also listed separately here. 

I’ve also decided to use this page to record my first visit to each county, or at least the first one I have record of. The few with question marks are counties I know I’ve visited, but I can’t track down a date of my visit.

ARKANSAS COUNTY (12/28/89)

Gillett

Stuttgart

  • Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie

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ASHLEY COUNTY (06/23/88)

Wilmot

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BAXTER COUNTY (05/07/83)

Norfolk

  • Jacob Wolf House

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BENTON COUNTY (07/21/89)

Bentonville

Garfield

Gravette

  • Can Do Hardware
  • Old Spanish Treasure Cave

Rogers

  • Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area
  • Rogers Historical Museum
  • War Eagle Cavern
  • War Eagle Mill

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BOONE COUNTY (09/01/85)

Harrison

  • Boone County Heritage Museum
  • Mystic Caverns
  • Neighbor’s Mill Bakery & Cafe

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BRADLEY COUNTY (06/23/88)

Hermitage

  • Moro Bay State Park

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CALHOUN COUNTY (?)

Hampton

  • Civil War Historical Marker/Courthouse

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CARROLL COUNTY (09/04/85)

Beaver

  • Little Golden Gate Bridge

Berryville

  • Cosmic Caverns
  • Memory Lane Museum
  • Saunders Museum

Eureka Springs

  • Blue Spring Heritage Center
  • Onyx Cave
  • Quigley’s Castle
  • Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge

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CHICOT COUNTY (06/22/88)

Lake Village

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CLARK COUNTY (04/25/23)

Arkadelphia

  • Clark County Museum

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CLAY COUNTY (05/14/83)

Piggott

  • Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum

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CLEBURNE COUNTY (12/26/18)

Heber Springs

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CLEVELAND COUNTY (06/14/23)

Kingsland

  • Johnny Cash Birthplace Marker/monument in town/welcome sign/post office display

New Edinburg

  • Marks’ Mill Battleground State Park

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COLUMBIA COUNTY (–)

McNeil

  • Logoly State Park

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CONWAY COUNTY (05/0/80)

Petit Jean

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CRAIGHEAD COUNTY (12/29/91)

Jonesboro

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CRAWFORD COUNTY (07/21/83)

Alma

  • Henry Humphrey Memorial (victim of Bonnie and Clyde)
  • Popeye Statue

Mountainburg

  • Lake Fort Smith State Park
  • Neon Moon Restaurant

Mulberry

  • Dairy Dip Diner

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CRITTENDEN COUNTY (04/30/83)

Marion

  • Sultana Disaster Museum

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CROSS COUNTY (12/29/91)

Parkin

Wynne

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DALLAS COUNTY (06/23/88)

Fordyce

  • Dallas County Museum
  • Roundtable Restaurant at Depot 113.

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DESHA COUNTY (06/22/88)

McGehee

  • Hoots BBQ
  • World War II Japanese American Internment Museum
  • Rohwer Heritage Site

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DREW COUNTY (06/22/23)

Monticello

  • Turner Neal Museum of Natural History

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FAULKNER COUNTY (11/20/79)

Conway

Greenbrier

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FRANKLIN COUNTY (07/21/83)

Altus

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FULTON COUNTY (06/24/2026)

Mammoth Spring

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GARLAND COUNTY (06/24/88)

Hot Springs

Jessieville

  • Ron Coleman Mining Tours

Mountain Pine

  • Lake Ouachita State Park

Royal

  • Burl’s Smokehouse

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GRANT COUNTY (06/23/88)

Leola

  • Jenkin’s Ferry Battleground State Park

Sheridan

  • Grant County Museum

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GREENE COUNTY 12/29/91)

Bono

Paragould

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HEMPSTEAD COUNTY (02/04/09)

Hope

Washington

  • Historic Washington State Park

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HOT SPRINGS COUNTY (02/01/24)

Bismarck

  • DeGray Lake Resort State Park

Jones Mills

  • Lake Catherine State Park

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HOWARD COUNTY (02/04/09)

Wickes

  • Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area

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INDEPENDENCE COUNTY (03/01/23)

Batesville

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IZARD COUNTY (?)

Calico Rock

  • Calico Rock Museum and Visitor Center

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JACKSON COUNTY (05/14/83)

Jacksonport

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JEFFERSON COUNTY (06/22/88)

Pine Bluff

Redfield

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JOHNSON COUNTY (07/21/83)

Oark

  • Oark General Store

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LAFAYETTE COUNTY (07/13/23)

Bradley

  • Conway Cemetery State Park

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LAWRENCE COUNTY (05/14/83)

Portia

  • Dairy King (Ark. Food HOF)

Powhatan

Walnut Ridge

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LEE COUNTY (05/14/26)

Marianna

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LINCOLN COUNTY (06/22/88)

Star City

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LITTLE RIVER COUNTY (–)

Ashdown

  • Millwood State Park

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LOGAN COUNTY (12/26/91)

Paris

  • Eiffel Tower Park
  • Grapevine Restaurant (Roadfood)
  • Battle of Haguewood Prairie Memorial
  • Logan County Museum
  • Mount Magazine State Park
  • Paris-Logan County Coal Miner’s Memorial

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LONOKE COUNTY (04/30/83)

Hamiter

Keo

  • Charlotte’s Eats and Sweets (Roadfood)

Lonoke

  • Little Rock Campaign Marker

 

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MADISON COUNTY (05/16/23)

Huntsville

  • Withrow Springs State Park

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MARION COUNTY (?)

Bull Shoals

  • Bull Shoals Caverns
  • Bull Shoals White River State Park

Rush

  • Rush Historic District (ghost town)

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MILLER COUNTY (07/13/23)

Fouke

Ravanna

Texarkana

  • Four States Auto Museum (Sat. and Sun. only)
  • Museum of Regional History

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MISSISSIPPI COUNTY (01/02/82)

Blytheville

  • Blytheville Air Force Base Exhibition
  • Historic Greyhound Bus Depot Visitor Center

Dyess

Manila

Wilson

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MONROE COUNTY (04/30/83)

Blackton

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MONTGOMERY COUNTY (10/12/22)

Pine Ridge

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NEVADA COUNTY (02/04/09)

Bluff City

  • White Oak Lake State Park

Prescott

  • Nevada County Depot & Museum

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NEWTON COUNTY (08/31/22)

Deer

Jasper

Nail

Ponca 

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OUACHITA COUNTY (–)

Camden

  • Fort Southerland
  • McCollum-Chidester Museum

Chidester

  • Poison Springs Battleground State Park

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PERRY COUNTY (06/21/88)

Perryville

Wye

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PHILLIPS COUNTY (12/23/84)

Helena

  • Battery C Historical Park
  • Delta Cultural Center
  • Helena Museum of Phillips County
  • New Fort Curtis

West Helena

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PIKE COUNTY (02/04/09)

Billstown

  • Singing grave of Glen Campbell

Glenwood

  • Baker’s Fabrication and Welding Statues

Kirby

  • Daisy State Park

Murfreesboro

  • Crater of Diamonds State Park
  • Ka-Do-Ha Indian Village Museum

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POINSETT COUNTY (12/29/91)

Harrisburg

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POLK COUNTY (02/15/23)

Mena

  • Queen Wilhelmina State Park

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POPE COUNTY (09/19/81)

Pelsor

Raspberry

Russellville

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PRAIRIE COUNTY (04/30/83)

Des Arc

De Valls Bluff

  • Civil War Interpretive Panels
  • Craig’s Bar-B-Q (Roadfood)

Hazen

  • Murry’s Restaurant (Ark. Food HOF)

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PULASKI COUNTY (05/13/80)

Jacksonville

Little Rock/North Little Rock

Scott

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RANDOLPH COUNTY (05/14/83)

Pocahontas

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ST. FRANCIS COUNTY (01/02/82)

Forrest City

  • Forrest’s Camp Historical Marker
  • (Birthplace of Don Kessinger)

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SALINE COUNTY (02/08/26)

Bauxite

  • Bauxite Museum

Benton

  • Gann Museum of Saline County

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SCOTT COUNTY (06/07/23)

Waldron

  • Scott County Museum of History

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SEARCY COUNTY (05/07/83)

Marshall

  • Buffalo River Historic Jail & Museum

St. Joe

  • Tyler Bend Visitor Center — Buffalo National River

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SEBASTIAN COUNTY (12/26/91)

Fort Smith

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SEVIER COUNTY (–)

Lockesburg

  • Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge

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SHARP COUNTY (09/12/22)

Hardy

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STONE COUNTY (05/07/83)

Fifty-Six

Mountain View

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UNION COUNTY (06/22/88)

El Dorado

  • South Arkansas Arboretum

Smackover

  • Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources

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VAN BUREN COUNTY (05/07/83)

Clinton

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WASHINGTON COUNTY (07/21/89)

Fayetteville

Prairie Grove

  • Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park
  • Telephone Booth on National Register of Historic Places

Springdale

  • Northwest Arkansas Naturals
  • Ozark Highlands Nature Center
  • Rodeo of the Ozarks
  • Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

West Fork

  • Devil’s Den State Park

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WHITE COUNTY (05/14/83)

Bald Knob

Searcy

  • Benjamin Clayton Black House and Searcy Art Gallery
  • Linda Byrd Smith Museum of Biblical Archaeology
  • The Rialto Theater
  • This Guys Smoke N Grill

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WOODRUFF COUNTY (12/29/91)

Augusta

  • Fitzhugh’s Woods Battlefield

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YELL COUNTY (05/05/83)

Dardanelle

Plainview

  • Hollis Country Store (Saturdays only)