Buffalo National River
America’s first national river — turquoise water & towering bluffs
The first national river in the country, running free and undammed for 135 Ozark miles past some of the tallest bluffs between the Rockies and Appalachians. Big Bluff and a reintroduced elk herd make it Arkansas’s wild crown jewel.
What to see
- Big Bluff (Goat Trail)
- Hemmed-In Hollow Falls
- Elk herd at Boxley
- Steel Creek
- Lost Valley
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