Pick Your Scenic Drive

Scenic Drives

Name of Drive

Description

Highlights

Where It Begins and Ends

Length In Miles

Website

Scenic Highway 7

Often rated as one of Americas top ten drives

Ozark & Ouachita mountains

DeGray Lake

Hot Springs

Buffalo National River

 

Harrison to Hot Springs

320

800/628-8725

Talimena Scenic Byway

Golden valleys and historic towns with breathtaking vistas

Winding Stair Mountain  

Fort Smith

Robbers Cave State Park 

Mena to Talimena Oklahoma

60

918/567-3434

Pig Trail

Winding drive through timber covered mountains and rushing rivers

Boston & Ozark Mountains

Ozark Highlands Trail

exciting whitewater on Mulberry River

on State Hwy 23 from St Paul to south of Cass

19

479/968-2354

Boston Mountains Scenic Loop

Two very different roads combine for very scenic north to south and back again trip

Lake Fort Smith State Park

Fayetteville

Devils Den State Park 

impressive mountain vistas

South of Fayetteville on U.S. Hwy 71 42 miles to Alma  then back up via I540

80

800/766-4626

Crowleys Ridge Parkway 

Southern leg of Missouri boothill drive 

Seven state parks

St Francis national forest and river

St Francis to Helena

198

870/972-2803

Great River Road

Traverses part of nations largest alluvial plain

historic towns

St Francis national forest 

Blytheville to Eudora

362

870/972-2803

Mount Magazine Scenic Byway

Winding mountain road with sharp curves and hairpin switchbacks

Mount Magazine state park

Cove Lake  

Paris to Havana

25

479/963-3076

Scenic Arkansas 9

Colorful Ozark scenery   

deep valleys

mountain vistas

trickling streams

Clinton to Melbourne

60

800/561-6508

Ozark Highlands

Traverses highland ridges between the headwaters of lively streams

north from Boxley on St Hwy 21 to south of Ozone

Boxley to Ozone 

35

479/754-2864