Arkansas Attractions Guide

Central

Aerospace Education Center - Aerospace Education Center is a permanent exhibit of artifacts from the history of flight. They offer the only IMAX theater in Arkansas, with a screen six stories high, theater style seating featuring educational and entertaining films.

Gator Park - Gator Park features gator golf, go karts, bumper boats, batting cages, and video arcade. There is something for the whole family to enjoy.

Wild River Country - Wild River Country is Arkansas's largest water park. The park offers many fun and exciting rides like the Vortex, Accelerator, Barratuba and more. There are also relaxing rides like lazy river where you can float the day away or the Wave Pool which contains over a half-million gallons of wave fun!

Murry's Dinner Playhouse - Murry's Dinner Playhouse is a unique facility that combines a great buffet dinner with professional theatre. For over 33 years, they have served up fun, food and fabulous live entertainment.

Riddle's Elephant And Wildlife Sanctuary - Riddle's Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary offers you an Elephant experience!  Every Saturday morning Participate in these majestic animals care and feeding. This is an up close and personal look at Asian and African elephants that you will never forget.

Arkansas Museum Of Discovery - Entertaining and interactive exhibits and collection-based exhibits help motivate and assist you in the life-long pursuit of knowledge. Experience a lightning bolt, build a robot, make a teepee, check your blood pressure, and even encounter a hissing cockroach.

Arkansas Art Center - The Arkansas Arts Center is a museum of art and an active center for the visual and performing arts. As the state's largest cultural institution, the Arkansas Arts Center is committed to presenting diverse cultural values; to promoting growth and understanding of the arts; and to providing inspiration to those it educates.

Historic Arkansas Museum - Arkansas's largest history museum has been researching, collecting, documenting, and preserving the best of Arkansas's decorative, mechanical, and fine art.

The Arkansas National Guard Museum - The Arkansas National Guard Museum is dedicated to preserving the history and telling the story of The Arkansas National Guard, Camp Pike and Camp Robinson.

Old State House Museum - Old State House Museum is known throughout the country as the scene of President Clinton's 1992 and 1996 election night celebrations. This magnificent Greek Revival structure houses a multimedia museum of Arkansas history including nationally recognized collections of Civil War battle flags, Arkansas art pottery, African-American quilts and more.

The Little Rock Zoo - The Little Rock Zoo has long been one of Arkansas' great treasures. It began modestly in 1926, with just two animals - an abandoned timber wolf and a circus-trained brown bear. Today, the Zoo has grown to include almost 600 animals representing 170 species - some of them on the endangered list.

Willow Springs Waterpark - Willow Springs Waterpark features a 400 ft Waterslide, Toboggan Ride, Log Roller, Water Basketball & Volleyball and many more water activities.

Delta

The Hemingway Pfeiffer Museum And Education Cente - The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center focuses on the internationally connected Pfeiffer family of Piggott, Arkansas and their son-in-law, Ernest Hemingway.

Stuttgart Agricultural Museum - Stuttgart Agricultural Museum invites students and visitors alike to partake in a unique experience not soon to be forgotten. This unique museum, winner of many awards for leadership in the field of conservation, depicts the history of agriculture and the pioneers who farmed the Grand Prairie of eastern Arkansas from the 1880's until 1921.

Delta Cultural Center - The Delta Cultural Center has undertaken the ambitious mission of preserving, interpreting and presenting the heritage and culture of the Arkansas Delta. The Center combines education and research with historical and cultural interpretation to communicate the evolving legacy of the Arkansas Delta's rich land and the people who live there.

Ouachitas

Mid America Science Museum - Embark on a world of discovery where interactive exhibits let you experiment with science and nature. Located on more than 21 acres of beautiful forestland, Mid-America Science Museum covers our human reactions, connections, and experiences with the spirit of science and the environment.

Magic Springs & Crystal Falls - Located in the scenic foothills of the Ouachita Mountains in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, Magic Springs & Crystal Falls is sure to be a hit with the entire family. Enjoy it all ? the green forests and blue lakes of a national park, the excitement of a theme park and water park, and the sites and charm of historic Hot Springs.

Ozarks

Arkansas Air Museum - The historic aircraft in the Arkansas Air Museum are unusual among museum exhibits because most of them still fly. From world-famous racing planes of the 1920s and 1930s to an early airliner, the planes are maintained in flying condition. Follow the colorful history of aviation in the state of Arkansas through numerous displays of original artifacts and aviation memorabilia.

Cosmic Cavern - Cosmic Cavern is one of Arkansas' hidden treasures. You will see 2 bottomless cave lakes during your 1hr and 15 minute tour. The first lake, South Lake, has had trout in it for nearly 50 years. Some trout have gone blind and most have lost their color. The bottom or end of these lakes have yet to be found.

Lokomotion Family Fun Center - Lokomotion Family Fun Center features four go-cart race tracks for all ages, Nascar pro track, bumper boats, 2 miniature golf courses, lazer tag, and 10,000 feet of exciting video arcade games!

Ozark Folk Center - Arkansas's unique Ozark Folk Center State Park is America's only facility that works at preserving the Ozark heritage and presenting it in such an entertaining way. Tap your toes to mountain music, see blacksmithing, pottery making and over 18 other pioneer skills and crafts.

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge - Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is an animal lover's paradise. The collection includes over 100 large animals that have been rescued over the years, and include Lions, Tigers, Cougars, Leopards, Bears, Monkeys, Deer and Birds.

Gallery Mint Museum - The Gallery Mint Museum -- devoted to the preservation and advancement of the Numismatic Arts -- is a private mint, whose mission is to build a permanent museum showing the evolution of coin-making technology from ancient Greece through the Industrial Revolution.

Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway - A great railroad show rolls out to thrill your whole family at ES&NA. The collection of vintage rolling stock at ES&NA is one of the Ozarks' largest, and all the authentic railroad memorabilia is here to re-create the turn-of-the-century era and give modern visitors a taste of how it was when rail service brought the first visitors to Eureka Springs in 1883.

Eureka Springs Gardens - Eureka Springs Gardens is one of the most spectacular botanical gardens in the Southwest. Spanning 33 acres, these colorful gardens are filled with an abundance of hardwood trees, select native plants and ever-changing flora. With rich blooms that blanket the grounds and a sweet country fragrance in the air, every visit offers a total sensory experience.

Daisy Air Gun Museum - The Daisy brand name is a household word and the corporate headquarters for Daisy Manufacturing Company has been in Rogers, Arkansas since 1958. Now you can walk through the amazing history of this company at the Rogers Daisy Airgun Museum. Displays include items manufactured during World War II and the history of the air rifle from the 1700s to the present.

Mountain Village 1890 - Mountain Village 1890, an historic re-creation of an Ozark settlement, is a living tribute to the pioneers who first settled this remote part of the country.

Bull Shoals Caverns - Bull Shoals Caverns, located near Mountain Village 1890, is one of those special places in the Ozarks, a limestone cave formed 350 million years ago and still alive and growing today.

River Valley

The Museum Of Automobiles - The Museum of Automobiles features a collection of 50 regularly rotated vintage vehicles dating from 1904. Also on display is Antique Gun Collection and Automobile related memorabilia.

Fort Smith Trolley Museum - Fort Smith Trolley Museum offers you an up close look at the past. Things to see include: Frisco 4003 Steam Engine, Streetcar Memorabilia, Cabooses, Railroad Passenger Car, History of Fort Smith System and Antique City Buses.

Museum Of Prehistory And History - Museum of Prehistory and History offers exhibits that concentrate on the Native American presence in western Arkansas from 12,000 years ago until today. Archeological artifacts and early documents are the focus of several exhibits. The Museum also works with tribal groups on interpretation.

Timberlands

Arkansas Museum Of Natural Resources - The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is situated in the midst of the historic sixty square mile Smackover Oil Field and one mile south of the oil rich town of Smackover. Although the Museum represents all of Arkansas' natural resources, it is dedicated to the pioneers of south Arkansas' oil and brine industries.

Band Museum - The Band Museum is the only museum dedicated entirely to the history of band music and instruments. Established by Jerry Horne, a band instrument collector for many years, the museum displays rare, old and unusual instruments and memorabilia from one of the most extensive collections anywhere in the USA.