Quiet Little Rock stands right in the middle of the state, just fifty miles west of the rejuvenated spa town of Hot Springs , which marks the eastern gateway to the remote Ouachita Mountains . The rippling farmland of the Arkansas River Valley is sandwiched by the Ouachita crests on the south side and the craggy ridges of the Ozarks to the north. Mining and logging communities dot the east-west roads, and former frontier towns like Fort Smith and Van Buren retain their Old West flavor. Fayetteville and Hope are both in west Arkansas; there's nothing to see in either.

Central and western Arkansas

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