Travel Information for Arkansas Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near an Arkansas attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, an Arkansas state park, this is where you will find it.
ARKANSAS is a compact, multi-faceted vacation land known as The Natural State and noted for the beauty of its extensive forests (more than 60% of it is wooded) and for an abundance of water (more than 600,000 acres of lakes, 9,700 miles of streams and rivers, and numerous natural springs). Six national park sites and 51 state parks preserve the natural, historic and cultural aspects of Arkansas's heritage. Visitors can go duck, deer and wild turkey hunting, fishing for trout (or big bass), hiking and camping, digging for diamonds or crystals, shopping for antiques, explore caves. Festivals and annual events celebrate its civil war history and there are Civil War sites to tour, art museums and children's museums to visit. There are more than 150 golf courses in Arkansas for all-seasons play and abundant tennis courts. Over 750 military engagements were recorded in Arkansas and all major encounters have been preserved along the ARKANSAS CIVIL WAR HERITAGE TRAIL as memorials, state parks and a battlefield.
FAYETTEVILLE is the cultural center of the Arkansas Ozarks region; numerous commercial buildings and homes around the downtown square have been restored to their original 19th century grandeur.
FORT SMITH combines the history of the wild and woolly "Old West" with the gentle charm of the antebellum "Old South"; attractions include the remains of the original 1817 fort on the Arkansas River at Fort Smith National Historic Site, the Fort Smith Museum of History, and a 22-square block area, the Belle Grove Historic District with restored homes that span 130 years of varying architectural styles; visitors can ride a fully-restored 1926 electric streetcar at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum.
HARRISON attractions include the Little Bell Wedding Chapel to which eloping couples travel for thousands of miles to be married; the Boone County Heritage Museum is a collection of M&NA Railroad, Boone County and Civil War artifacts and pictures, and, in the wild, visitors can take a guided tour through the Mystic Caverns or track the saber tooth tiger and cave bear in the Hurricane River Cave.
Known worldwide for its traditional thermal spring-fed waters, HOT SPRINGS offers attractions like the Bathhouse Row on Central Avenue with eight spa bathhouses dating from 1911-35; visitors can also take in some history at the Arkansas Walk of Fame, or enter the worlds of energy, life, matter and perception at the Mid - America Science Museum; other attractions are the Arkansas Alligator Farm & Petting Zoo, and the Magic Springs Theme Park and Crystal Falls Water Park, the only theme park located in a national park, and Garvan Woodland Gardens with 210 acres of a forested peninsula jutting into Lake Hamilton.
Attractions in Arkansas' state capital LITTLE ROCK include The Arkansas State Capitol, the Old State House Museum, the scene of President Clinton's 1992 and 1996 election night celebrations, and the civil rights landmark, The Central High Museum with interactive exhibits depicting the history of the 1957 desegregation crisis; for children there is the Children's Museum of Arkansas, Little Rock Zoo, the Museum of Discovery, and the IMAX Theatre; the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, constructed in the early 1840s, depicts the military heritage of Arkansas., and The Villa Marre is a 19th century Italianate Victorian home authentically decorated with period furnishings; the Arkansas Arts Center includes nine galleries.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK attractions include buildings in a wide variety of architectural styles and the water park, Wild River Country.
The Ouachita Trail of 223 miles in OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST starts at Pinnacle Mountain State Park. The Ozark Highlands Trail in OZARK NATIONAL FOREST winds 187 miles from Lake Fort Smith State Park.
Boasting a bounty of historic tour homes, each restored to its near-original state, the downtown area of PINE BLUFF is covered by 22 historical murals which recreate historic Pine Bluff on bare walls of local businesses; other attractions include the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame, the Arkansas Railroad Museum, and the Band Museum, dedicated entirely to the history of band music and instruments; for a glimpse into the past there is the Jefferson County Courthouse, and the Jefferson County Historical Museum and for a glimpse into the future and to learn about the visual and performing arts and sciences there is the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas.
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