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The Best Attractions In Arkansas Delta Byways

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Pumpkin Hollow

Lakeport Plantation

Parkin Archeological State Park

WWII Japanese American Internment Museum

Southland Park Gaming and Racing

Mississippi River State Park

Johnny Cash House

Lake Chicot State Park

Delta Cultural Center

Forrest L Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center

Village Creek State Park

Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center

Arkansas Post National Memorial

Historic Dyess Colony: Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash

The Arkansas Delta is one of the six natural regions of the state of Arkansas. Willard B. Gatewood Jr., author of The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox, says that rich cotton lands of the Arkansas Delta make that area The Deepest of the Deep South.The region runs along the Mississippi River from Eudora north to Blytheville and as far west as Little Rock. It is part of the Mississippi embayment, itself part of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain. The flat plain is bisected by Crowley's Ridge, a narrow band of rolling hills rising 250 to 500 feet above the flat delta plains. Several towns and cities have been developed along Crowley's Ridge, including Jon...
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The Best Attractions In Arkansas Delta Byways

1. Southland Park Gaming and Racing West Memphis
Southland Park Gaming and Racing is a casino, buffet, and greyhound racetrack in West Memphis, Arkansas. Over 400 greyhound races take place at the Park each year. Simulcast thoroughbred and greyhound races from other tracks around the United States are also offered. After years of low attendance, Southland Park has regained popularity because neighboring casinos in Tunica, Mississippi experienced devastating floods 2011. In 2014, it was announced that Southland was to undergo a nearly $38 million dollar expansion and renovation. It is one of the most visited attractions in Arkansas and the city of West Memphis.
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2. Craighead Forest Park Jonesboro Arkansas
3. Forrest L Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center Jonesboro Arkansas
This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America , Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.Monuments and memorials are listed below alphabetically by state, and by city within each state. States not listed have no known qualifying items for the list. For monuments and memorials which have been removed, consult Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials. Some but by no means all are included below. This list do...
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4. Village Creek State Park Arkansas
Village Creek State Park is a 6,909-acre Arkansas state park in Cross and St. Francis counties, Arkansas in the United States. The park was formed as a result of a study commissioned by the Arkansas General Assembly to form a large park in east Arkansas. Segments of the Old Military Road, later used as the Trail of Tears run through the park, which also features two lakes and 27 holes of golf.
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5. Mississippi River State Park Marianna Arkansas
The Great River Road is a collection of state and local roads that follow the course of the Mississippi River through ten states of the United States. They are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. It formerly extended north into Canada, serving the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba. The term Great River Road refers both to a series of roadways and to a larger region inside the US and in each state, used for tourism and historic purposes. Some states have designated or identified regions of state interest along the road and use the roads to encompass those regions.It is divided into two main sections: the Great River Road and the National Scenic Byway Route. The eponymous segment runs on both sides of the river from Louisi...
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6. Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center Piggott
Pauline Marie Pfeiffer was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.
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7. Johnny Cash House Dyess
Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice; the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, which is characterized by train-sound guitar rhythms; a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; free prison concerts; and a trademark, all-black stage wardrobe, which earned him the n...
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8. Lakeport Plantation Lake Village
Lakeport Plantation is a historic antebellum plantation house near Lake Village, Arkansas and Greenville, Mississippi. Restored between 2003 and 2008, it is now a museum and Arkansas State University Heritage Site.
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9. Delta Cultural Center Helena Arkansas
The Arkansas Delta is one of the six natural regions of the state of Arkansas. Willard B. Gatewood Jr., author of The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox, says that rich cotton lands of the Arkansas Delta make that area The Deepest of the Deep South.The region runs along the Mississippi River from Eudora north to Blytheville and as far west as Little Rock. It is part of the Mississippi embayment, itself part of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain. The flat plain is bisected by Crowley's Ridge, a narrow band of rolling hills rising 250 to 500 feet above the flat delta plains. Several towns and cities have been developed along Crowley's Ridge, including Jonesboro. The region's lower western border follows the Arkansas River just outside Little Rock down through Pine Bluff. There the border shif...
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10. Historic Dyess Colony: Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash Dyess
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mississippi County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. There are 41 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Another two properties were once listed but have been removed. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 2, 2018.
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11. Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie Stuttgart
This list of museums in Arkansas is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace are not included. To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.
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12. Pumpkin Hollow Piggott
13. Arkansas Post National Memorial Gillett
Arkansas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,019. Located in the Arkansas Delta, the county has two county seats, De Witt and Stuttgart.The first of the state's 75 present-day counties to be created, Arkansas County was formed on December 13, 1813, when this area was part of the Missouri Territory. The county was named after the Arkansas River , as was the subsequent Arkansas Territory. This was later split off from Missouri Territory and eventually admitted to the union as a state. The riverfront areas in the Arkansas Delta were developed for cotton plantations, based on the use of enslaved African Americans. Cotton was the major commodity crop before and after the Civil War. Other crops such as soybeans are also cultivate...
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14. WWII Japanese American Internment Museum Mcgehee
The Japanese American Internment Museum, also known as the WWII Japanese American Internment Museum and the Jerome-Rohwer Interpretive Museum & Visitor Center, is a history museum in McGehee, Arkansas. The museum features exhibits regarding the area history of Japanese American internment in the 1940s when more than 17,000 Japanese Americans were housed at nearby Rohwer War Relocation Center and Jerome War Relocation Center during World War II. Exhibits include a film, oral histories, photographs, personal artifacts and some art made by internees, as well as changing art exhibitions.Visitors are encouraged to tour the remains of the Rohwer War Relocation Center, which is located about 17 miles away from the museum. The site includes a memorial, cemetery, interpretive panels and audio kiosk...
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15. Parkin Archeological State Park Parkin
Parkin is a city in Cross County, Arkansas, United States, along the St. Francis River. The population was 1,105 at the 2010 census, down from 1,602 in 2000. Due to the recent population loss, a large segment of the downtown area has many abandoned and boarded-up buildings.
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Arkansas Delta Byways Videos

Arkansas Adventure Commercial

Find your Arkansas adventure. For trip ideas visit Arkansas.com.

STAR OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY Tourism Bureau

While on sebatical from acting My agent in Tulsa got me an audition for a co host gig for the arkansas tourism bureau portraying Hech Thomas. I worked in my second co host gig with a fine actor from Little Rock Arkansas who portrayed the famous first Black deputy marshall in arkansas Bass Reeves.Its less than 10 minutes and very informative if you was to ever want to travel to Arkansas.

Exploring Arkansas January 2013

Ozark Moonshine Run, Prim's Round Rocks, Smackover Ghost Tour, Great River Road

You're not likely to find moonshine, but you will enjoy one of the most picturesque drives in the Ozarks by taking the 110 mile Ozark Moonshine Run which utilizes six highways. Prim's round boulders have been quite the attraction for a long time. They're not so much a mystery, but are related to several geological processes dating back about ten thousand years. It's called Oil Town USA, but Smackover boasts of another attraction a ghost tour of five active haunted buildings plus three cemeteries. A pleasant Delta drive is the Great River Road, which is actually a national parkway of the Mississippi River, extending through ten states.

Traveling through Kansas, Iowa, and Arkansas

Music by Craig Duncan

Mississippi Great River Road trip

All the way from the Mississippi River headwaters at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, down through 10 states to New Orleans, Louisiana. 3 weeks worth of travel condensed into 6 or so minutes.

I filmed a few seconds every hour on my humble little iPhone and ended up with just shy of 1000 clips which were filtered through and dropped into Premiere. There's no real narrative - I just wanted to capture the journey, and I think this does it. Lots of roads. Lots of long, long roads. :)

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Talimena Scenic Drive Arkansas

Riding to Bikes Blues and BBQ 2013 taking the long way

Exploring Arkansas April 2014

The art of falconry dates back about 3000 years, and is still common today. At DeGray Lake Resort State Park, public falconry hunts are incorporated with the eagle outings. Marble Falls -- once a part of Dogpatch USA—is a spring-fed waterfall, providing a year-round flow and is visible from Scenic Byway 7, along with the town of Marble Falls. Standing Rock is what's left of a massive rock formation in the Ouachita National Forest south of Mena. Driving along the Mississippi River levee at Lake Chicot State Park, provides a wonderful opportunity to experience the history, wildlife and culture of the area.

Tour de Hoot 2009

Bicycle ride called Tour de Hoot . An annual event held in McGehee Arkansas as a fund raiser for the McGehee Boys and Girls Club

Provo River in 4K -- Late Spring 2017

This video, shot in 4K using a Panasonic G85 with EVO Rage gimbal and a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone, covers a good length of the Provo River from the headwaters near Mt Baldy to the Jordanelle Reservoir and including the Bridal Veil Falls below the Jordanelle. This video was filmed over a few days in June 2017 and right about the point of highest flows of the Provo River.

The first 3:26 was shot mostly near the top of the Provo River and around the Provo River Falls but includes a scene from Bridal Veil Falls about 45 miles downstream from the Provo River Falls.

Next up is drone footage near the Soapstone Campground which is just about midway up the mountain from Kamas. This segment of the video follows the course of the Provo River as it flows through a beautiful meadows area and west of the Soapstone Campground.

The last segment, also captured by drone, is at the east end of the Jordanelle Reservoir at the point where the Provo River enters the Jordanelle. Most of the boardwalks in this area appear to be taped off owing I would guess to the high water of this years high runoff.

Although Utah is generally thought of as high desert with mostly scrub vegetation when you get up into the mountains and particularly this time of year the landscape is very lush and green -- however, just a bit further down towards the SLC valley area and green turns to brown/grey.

From the valley floor near SLC at about 4250 feet MSL to the pass near Mt. Baldy the elevation increases by more than a mile and the temps in the summertime can be 35F lower at the top. I think I'll do a little tent camping this summer near the Soapstone campground as a way to beat the heat.

Tales of the Road Highway 61 Part 2 - Trailer

Find out what stories will Cathy Wurzer will tell in Tales of the Road Highway 61 - Part 2.

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