Recreation

Aesthetic Club
The Aesthetic Club is one of the oldest women’s clubs west of the Mississippi River. It began when a group o...
Albert Pike Memorial Temple
The Albert Pike Memorial Temple is located at 700–724 Scott Street in Little Rock (Pulaski County). On Nove...
Arkansas Apple Festival
The Arkansas Apple Festival in Lincoln (Washington County), held the first weekend of October, has been a feat...
Arkansas Cornbread Festival
The Arkansas Cornbread Festival, an annual celebration of Southern culinary heritage, was inaugurated in 2011...
Arkansas Derby
The Arkansas Derby is the most lucrative thoroughbred horse race in Arkansas, currently offering a “purse”...
Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame
The Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was created to honor Arkansans who hav...
Arkansas Folk Festival
The annual Arkansas Folk Festival takes place on the third weekend in April in Mountain View (Stone County). H...
Arkansas Goat Festival
The first Arkansas Goat Festival was held in Perryville (Perry County) on the first weekend in October in 2016...
Arkansas Heritage Trails System
The Arkansas Heritage Trails System is a network of driving tours created by the Department of Arkansas Herita...
Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources
The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources houses exhibits that tell the story of oil and bromine production in...
Arkansas Post Museum
The Arkansas Post Museum (previously Arkansas Post Museum State Park) in southeastern Arkansas displays exhibi...
Arkansas Post National Memorial
Arkansas Post National Memorial is a unit of the National Park Service located in southern Arkansas County nea...
Arkansas Rice Festival
The Arkansas Rice Festival, held during the second weekend of October in Weiner (Poinsett County), was founded...
Arkansas River Visitor Center
The Arkansas River Visitor Center, dedicated on August 20, 1985, was designed to acquaint visitors with the Ar...
Arkansas Scottish Festival
The Arkansas Scottish Festival is held every April on the campus of Lyon College in Batesville (Independence C...
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre
The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (AST), Arkansas’s only professional Shakespeare theater company, was origin...
Arkansas Society, United States Daughters of 1812
The Arkansas State Society, United States Daughters of 1812 (often abbreviated as USD 1812) is affiliated with...
Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show
aka: Arkansas State Fair
The Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show (usually just called the...
Arkansas Territorial Centennial
In observance of the centennial anniversary of the creation of the Arkansas Territory, Governor Charles Hillma...
Arkansas Unit, Herb Society of America, Inc. (AU-HSA)
The Arkansas Unit of The Herb Society of America (AU-HSA), founded in Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1966, ha...
Bathhouse Row
Bathhouse Row Historic District extends along the foot of the mountain that gives rise to the thermal springs ...
Bell Slough Wildlife Management Area
When Lake Conway was completed in 1951 in the Palarm Creek bottoms of southern Faulkner County, land for the d...
Bentonville Film Festival
The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) is held annually in Bentonville (Benton County), with the main focus of th...
Big River Crossing
aka: Harahan Bridge
The Harahan Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River to connect Me...
Biking
aka: Cycling
Arkansas is home to numerous dirt roads and trails for mountain bik...
Birdwatching
aka: Birding
Birdwatching, also commonly called birding, is the hobby of observi...
Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
The Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the Ouachita National Forest in western Arkansas and eastern ...
Blanchard Springs Caverns
Blanchard Springs Caverns (BSC) is a magnificent limestone cave system starting more than 200 feet underground...
Botanical Garden of the Ozarks
The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks (BGO) in Fayetteville (Washington County) opened in 2007 on acreage leased ...
Boyle Park
Boyle Park was created when John F. Boyle (1874–1938) donated a 231-acre tract of land in the southwestern a...
Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival
The Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival celebrates the pink tomato industry in southeastern Arkansas. Origina...
Bull Shoals-White River State Park
Arkansas’s seventh state park, Bull Shoals-White River State Park, is near Mountain Home (Baxter County) in ...