Arkansas

Pros: Oaklawn
Cons: streets are horrible

Hot Springs, Arkansas is quite the tourist attraction. Hot Springs is known for its natural springs, spas, historic hotels, and OAKLAWN. Oaklawn is the subject that I am most familiar with.

My parents used to take me to Hot Springs to...

Pros: Something for absolutely everyone
Cons: Can get quite crowded in summer

I recently attended a family reunion held in Eureka Springs Arkansas. It is an excellent family friendly location and the area offers something for just about everyone.

The town is one of the old "hot springs" spa resorts of the...

Pros: Razorbacks are the team to follow in Arkansas
Cons: Wish we were big enough for a pro team. Well, that doesn't always work out. Chicago is a big city, and look at the sad teams it has to offer (well, that's a cheap shot, but the Bears, Cubs, Bulls and Blackhawks? Come on. What's going on up there?)

Here in Northwest Arkansas, we've got a lot of foreigners milling around and settling. Indeed, it seems that many folks pack up their carpetbags and leave their homes in Iowa, Kansas, New York, California and other foreign spots and wind up living here....

Pros: mildly entertaining, in a cheesy hero-worshipping kind of way
Cons: cheesy, hero-worshipping, fairly dull

If you're driving on route 71 near Bentonville, Arkansas, you are bound to see a billboard or two advertising Walton's 5&10, The Wal-Mart Visitor's Center. Although you may be tempted to visit the mother of all Wal-Marts, our advice to you is to...

Pros: relaxing, beautiful, cost & many more
Cons: no restroom facilities

Through the valleys of the Ozarks and below Bulls Shoals Dam you will find the crystal clear and chilly waters of the White River. Located in Northern Arkansas the beautiful landscape will put even the most stressed person back to ground zero and lower...

Pros: Great selection of beverages; Good food; Nice Atmosphere
Cons: None, well, OK, you have to go to Little Rock! :>

Flying Saucer Pub

Their motto: "No Cr@p on Tap".

I travel occasionally for business, therefore, I recently found myself in downtown Little Rock. "What to do", I thought? Fortunately, this public house was just...

Pros: Fajita's & Music
Cons: Cheese Dip (too runny)

Review Topic:  Restaurants


El Acapulco was my destination tonight. My travels in the U.S. Air Force have taken me all across the United States from coast to coast. This restaurant is fairly new to my area. It boasts a...

Pros: Outstanding food; relaxing atmosphere
Cons: Off the beaten path

Bottini's Restaurant is one of those "finds" you happen onto when wandering the country. Other than the local residents, who would expect to find an outstanding (4 star) restaurant in the tiny town of Harrison, Arkansas.

Where, you might ask,...

Pros: Friendly people, great homestyle cooking, beautiful country, back to nature
Cons: Humidity, heat, bugs, more bugs

The summer before last, I decided that we needed to go an a real family vacation before my two sons were too old to go with us and too embarrassed to do family things. Because my sons were capable equestrians, and I had been taking horseback riding...

Pros: good huntin and fishin, by jiggers nice people good buddy
Cons: some places require a good long walk to get to

I live deep in the spiffy holler of Flatbush, Arkansas and I must say sure as shootin that I love my ...

Pros: Visitors are able to interact with many of the animals. Great variety of animals. Not commercial
Cons: No eateries provided. Seems to be a small staff.

Hidden away from the larger areas of Arkansas, about 37 miles from Fayetteville in the State's central west, is a small town named Gentry. The main attraction, and about the only attraction, of Genty is the Wild Wilderness Drive Safari. I was...

Pros: Arkansas is beautiful, refreshing, and full of new and wonderful things.
Cons: It is just a little behind the times....

Since I moved here five years ago from Cleveland Ohio, I have become proficient in the art of Arkansas fishing. It is an obsession with me. I would fish every day of the week if I could.

I have traveled all over northwest Arkansas to seek out...

Pros: Many lovely attractions
Cons: Too danged hot in the summer.

Note: In no means is this editorial meant to serve as an absolute tourist's guide to Arkansas. It is meant to serve predominantly as an editorial on Arkansas weather. Read and rate as applicable.

Ugh!

I'm sitting in my...

Pros: The Natural State - it really is.
Cons: Boredom!

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Pros: Scenic, Fun, Recreational
Cons: none

I was born and raised in a beautiful area, near a small friendly town nestled in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas.
During the course of my life, I've lived in several differant states, towns small and large, but until I finally settled back in...