Our favorite places to visit: tourist attractions & sights to see in Arkansas

Timberlands

The phrase "Old South" frequently conjures images of moss-covered cypress and magnolia trees, lavish architecture and a rich history punctuated by the Civil War. Those are just a few of the features that imbue the Timberlands region with its legendary charm.

Troll the history of the area at:

Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources - Smackover (p. 98)
- Films and exhibits relate the history of Arkansas's oil and brine industries and the big 1920s oil boom
Camden Visitors Center & McCollum - Chidester House (p. 93)
- Union Gen. Frederick Steele occupied the McCollum-Chidester House at 926 Washington Street, then the home of stagecoach operator John T. Chidester
- House is mostly furnished with antiques original to the Chidester family, who moved into the home in 1857
Clinton Center - Hope (p. 95)
- House has been decorated with period furnishings to appear as it did when it served as the future chief executive's home
Delta Rivers Nature Center - Pine Bluff (p. 97)
- Center's exhibits reveal the history and importance of Arkansas's Delta streams and wetlands
El Dorado Downtown Historic District (p. 94)
- Downtown contains a significant collection of 1920s and 1930s architecture (courthouse, churches and commercial buildings) made necessary and financed by the oil boom that began in 1921
Historic Washington State Park (p. 99)
- 19th-century restoration village contains the state's largest collection of pre-Civil War homes open for tours and Arkansas's Confederate capital from 1863-65
Murals - Magnolia (p. 96)
- Five colorful murals on the city's historic square
Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Museum (p. 97)
- Exhibits of Native American and Civil War relics
- Local African-American history
Saracen Landing - Pine Bluff (p. 97)
- New $4.2 million park facility with a pavilion, fishing pier and fountain on the shores of 500-acre Lake Saracen

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