A breathtaking glass-and-wood chapel hidden in the Ozark woods just west of Eureka Springs, free to visit, where 425 windows dissolve the walls into the surrounding forest.
Road trips · Arkansas
Arkansas road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Arkansas — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
The only public diamond mine in the world, near Murfreesboro, where you dig a plowed volcanic field and keep whatever gems you find — thousands are pulled out every year.
A still-living cave system in the Ozark National Forest near Mountain View, where water still drips and grows new formations on lantern-lit and standard guided tours.
A rugged CCC-built park in the Lee Creek valley near Fayetteville with sandstone crevices, small caves, and waterfalls after rain — classic, uncrowded Ozark hiking.
Arkansas's highest point near Paris, with cliffside lodge views over the Petit Jean River Valley and trails popular with hang gliders and rock climbers.
An impossible-looking boulder in Eureka Springs that balances like an upside-down pyramid on a tiny base, set in a small private park with trails and a natural bridge in the Ozark hills.
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