Long Weekend
3 days · ~340 miles · from Hot Springs, AR
Arkansas's two great mountain drives back to back: bathhouse steam and gangster lore, then the Buffalo River highlands and the Pig Trail's tight curves up to Eureka Springs' hillside chapels.
This trip chains: Arkansas 7: The Scenic Seven · The Pig Trail & Eureka
Soak and stroll Bathhouse Row, the Gangster Museum for the Capone years, then Arkansas 7 north over the Ouachitas and Ozarks — the Rotary Ann overlook, the Arkansas Grand Canyon, pie at the Ozark Café in Jasper.
Morning on the Buffalo National River at Pruitt, then west and south onto AR 23 — the Pig Trail's canopy curves along the Mulberry, a stop at Turner Bend. Climb toward Eureka Springs by evening.
Thorncrown Chapel's glass in the woods, the Christ of the Ozarks statue, and a slow morning through the Victorian switchback streets — the Crescent Hotel for a haunted nightcap or the road home.