Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

ARKANSAS SIGHTSEEING: Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area offers diversions on land and water

COSSATOT RIVER STATE PARK-NATURAL AREA -- "Cossatot" is thought to stem from the French "casse-tete," meaning "crushed head" or "broken skull." That is an apt term for the waterway generally ranked as ...
Tulsa World

Focus: The Arkansas: River of diversity

The Arkansas River Basin covers five states and feeds a river whose personality goes from mountain stream to dry riverbed to bustling navigation channel Eyes have turned to the Arkansas River in ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Arkansas breaks ground on Interstate 49 Arkansas River Bridge project

BARLING -- Standing in front of a large path of cleared land, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders celebrated a major step forward in the expansion of Interstate 49. Officials from across the River Valley and ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

ARKANSAS SIGHTSEEING: Visitor Centers offer fascinating history of state’s major waterway, from Colorado to the Mississippi River

RUSSELLVILLE -- The view from the Arkansas River Visitor Center's observation deck overlooking Dardanelle Lock & Dam gives no clue that the placid body of water below was once a raging hazard to boat ...
Arkansas Times

River Trail travail: After two decades, can Little Rock finally close the loop?

The Arkansas River Trail loop has long been lauded as an example of Central Arkansas’s forward-thinking commitment to tourism, sustainability and quality of life. But more than two decades after the ...