Arkansas Picture Of The Day

[Mith242]

Here's a pic from the Hot Springs Tower, a nice view of the city below. It's actually two pics merged together that I haven't posted in the Hot Springs pic topic yet.

[Mith242]

Here's a pic from Arkansas wine country. I made a little side trip to Altus on my way down last weekend. Wish I could have found a better spot to take a picture. I was hoping to find some larger vineyards to take pictures of. I think every existing winery except one is located around Altus. And the one that isn't is less than an hour's drive away as well.

[TBurban]

Wow! Awesome photo! beautiful scenery, reminds me of Tuscany.

[Mith242]

Thanks. I do like to stop by with all the grapevines growing.

[Mith242]

A little bit further south of most of the grapevines is the town of Altus. This was taken from a scenic overlook just south of St Mary's Catholic Church.

[Mith242]

Here's a pic I took today on my trip. Here's a shot of the Crawford County Courthouse in Van Buren. Seems like I'm slowly getting a county courthouse collection going.

[Mith242]

Here's a couple of pics of one of the old trolleys that is being restored in Ft Smith. Luckily I was able to get the man who brought back the trolley system to Ft Smith to give me a little tour of the facilities being used to restore the trolleys. This one is one of the ones that was actually used in the city. It dates back to 1904. I'll post some more info and pics when I get a Ft Smith pic topic started in the near future.

[Mith242]

Just to see if I can get any more interest out of some of my Ft Smith pics, here's one looking down Garrison Ave.

The rest are located over here in this topic.

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...opic=25990&st=0

Edited June 3, 2006 by Mith242

[NCB]

^Very nice pics, Rod. I've never been to Fort Smith, but it looks like a pretty cool place.

[arkansas_buff]

Arkansas is beautiful!

[mcheiss]

Great Pics!!

[mcheiss]

Shot of density in the Pinnacle Hills area of Rogers.

[skirby]

Three day heifer taken with phone.

[Mith242]

Went out hiking all over the Ozarks today. Trying to hit as many places as I could during the peak of the fall foliage. Here was my first stop Hawksbill Crag also known as Whitaker Point. I should have a number of pics that I'll slowly get posted over here when I get the chance.

[Mith242]

Here's another shot that was taken near Hawksbill Crag.

[Mith242]

Here's a shot of the Buffalo River Natl River. My second stop of the day. This is near the Steel Creek access. Not a huge amount of color, there's a lot of cedars at the top of the bluff.

[Mith242]

Here's a couple from Round Top Mtn just south of Jasper off of Scenic Highway 7. In fact in the second pic you can see Jasper and the highway.

[Mith242]

Here's a few more pics to show off some of the different colors in the Ozarks. These were taken on the Hawksbill Crag trail or near Cave Mountain Rd.

Edited October 30, 2006 by Mith242

[mcheiss]

Went out hiking all over the Ozarks today. Trying to hit as many places as I could during the peak of the fall foliage. Here was my first stop Hawksbill Crag also known as Whitaker Point. I should have a number of pics that I'll slowly get posted over here when I get the chance.

Is that the same point that Randy McNataly (Think I said that right) used for their atlas cover?

[Mith242]

Is that the same point that Randy McNataly (Think I said that right) used for their atlas cover?

I don't guess I knew Rand McNally used this shot for one of their atlases. Maybe it's because I tend to go for the atlases DeLorme does for individual states instead.

[Mith242]

Here's a shot of a big metro here in Arkansas. Not sure if many of you have ever seen Stuttgart but it's somewhat funny to see people's impressions when you're driving to it and they've never been. From far away on the flat Grand Prairie it looks like there's a big city coming up on the horizon. But no those aren't office buildings those are mills.

[convulso]

Here's a shot of a big metro here in Arkansas. Not sure if many of you have ever seen Stuttgart but it's somewhat funny to see people's impressions when you're driving to it and they've never been. From far away on the flat Grand Prairie it looks like there's a big city coming up on the horizon. But no those aren't office buildings those are mills.

that's a fascinating pic. all of your pics are wonderful. if my memory serves, it seems that your photos have been getting progressively better - these are the zhit.

i took a slew of pics in eureka springs on my long drive out west in august, but i haven't edited them. i'll post a few when i get around to sifting through! was really impressed with the whole corridor between i-40 to bentonville (but excluding bentonville). fayetteville was a revelation. AR seems like the kind of place to be proud to say you're from, and i used to ignorantly think otherwise. a few actual visits will always do wonders for the uninformed.

[Mith242]

that's a fascinating pic. all of your pics are wonderful. if my memory serves, it seems that your photos have been getting progressively better - these are the zhit.

i took a slew of pics in eureka springs on my long drive out west in august, but i haven't edited them. i'll post a few when i get around to sifting through! was really impressed with the whole corridor between i-40 to bentonville (but excluding bentonville). fayetteville was a revelation. AR seems like the kind of place to be proud to say you're from, and i used to ignorantly think otherwise. a few actual visits will always do wonders for the uninformed.

Hey nice to hear from you. I had been wondering how your trip went. Looking forward to seeing your pics.

[Aporkalypse]

Here's a shot of a big metro here in Arkansas. Not sure if many of you have ever seen Stuttgart but it's somewhat funny to see people's impressions when you're driving to it and they've never been. From far away on the flat Grand Prairie it looks like there's a big city coming up on the horizon. But no those aren't office buildings those are mills.

It's most impressive at night when the lights on the silos make it look like you're coming up on a big city. It's actually very impressive, as you said.

Stuttgart's a busy place during duck season, especially during the big festival when they have the Duck gumbo contest.

[Mith242]

It's most impressive at night when the lights on the silos make it look like you're coming up on a big city. It's actually very impressive, as you said.

Stuttgart's a busy place during duck season, especially during the big festival when they have the Duck gumbo contest.

Yeah the big festival was going on when I went over. One think I thought was interesting, the Wings Over the Prairie Festival is claiming to be the oldest currently running festival in the south. This years was the 71st. I'll be posting some more pics, probably in a separate topic for Stuttgart.