Adventure Travel Trips & Fun Outdoor Activities in Arkansas
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Clipping the bolts on “Greasy Kid Stuff” (5.12) at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch near Jasper.
Refresh your spirit. Disconnect from the digital devices and reconnect with family and friends in the wonder of Arkansas’s natural beauty. Refresh your spirit.
Take a deep breath of cool Ozark or Ouachita mountain air. Revel in the breeze crossing one of Arkansas’s great lakes. Enjoy a relaxed family float trip or the thrill of a whitewater or rock climbing adventure. Journey one of 250 hiking trails that collectively stretch more than 1,500 miles. Get away from it all in more than 2.9 million acres in three national forests.
With some 9,000 miles of pristine streams and rivers and more than 600,000 acres of lakes, Arkansas is renowned for fishing and hunting and water sports of all sorts, including sailing and scuba diving. Marinas, boat docks and fishing guide services are plentiful across the state.
Other fun outdoor activities to enjoy in Arkansas include on- and off-road biking, golfing on designer courses, mining for keeper quartz crystals and diamonds, and birdwatching. For the more adventurous, there’s wild caving in underground limestone caverns.
Every season offers something special in The Natural State’s outdoors. That’s why Arkansas annually hosts thousands of families, couples and groups who’ve come to reconnect — to refresh their spirits.