I always say I live in the prettiest on the planet planet, the historic Victorian village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. If you’ve stopped by my about Beth page, you know I’ve come full circle, from Fayetteville Arkansas where my father was on faculty at the University of Arkansas, to the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to Phoenix, then the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a few years in Dallas and Austin and finally, back to the Ozarks. I’ve loved living in all of those places, but the Ozarks has always felt like home.
We call them the Ozark mountains, but really they’re a series of plateaus worn down over the millennia into spectacular vistas everywhere you look. The Ozarks are also the perfect spot to to find a wealth of travel experiences. Whether you’re traveling solo, as a couple, with friends, or with your family, you can find symposia and symphonies in Fayetteville, internationally acclaimed art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, theme parks at Silver Dollar City and Branson, and hiking, dining, festivals and more in my own beautiful Eureka!
Here in Eureka Springs, alone, there is an incredible array of lodging (some of it’s even haunted) to suit any taste and price range. The town is known as a regional art center; there are galleries, music festivals, plays, Opera –parades practically every week–lakes and rivers, nature trails, forests, camping nearby, fabulous dining, and (very important for me as a local) amazing coffee bars. We’re our own little mini-Venice–a town with a population of 2000 that welcomes over 750,000 visitors each year! And yet we still maintain a small town feel.
Everyone who comes to Eureka wants to live like a local; I’ll give you detailed itinerary ideas about life and what to do when you visit Eureka from a ‘locals point of view.’ I love it here and want you to love it too.
As wonderful as Eureka is, the Ozarks region is even vaster! So I’ll be filling you in on fun itinerary ideas for Fayetteville, Bentonville, Branson, and ‘secret’ out of the way spots around and in between! You’re going to have a great time living life in the Ozarks!
Do you have questions about Ozarks traveling? Leave a comment! I’d love to answer them for you.