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Halloween in the Park 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
/ 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Join the friends and staff of Lake Catherine State Park as we host a community fall festival. This event features trick-or-treating in the campground and a hot dog and marshmallow roast. The event…
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Senior American Special at Petit Jean State Park
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - Thursday, October 23, 2025
Experience the scenic beauty of Petit Jean State Park while enjoying the hospitality of the friendly park staff! Join us for free guided walks, talks, demonstrations, and entertainment.…
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Creepy Crawly Weekend
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - Sunday, October 26, 2025
/ 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Discover the residents of the park that crawl, creep, and slither. We will have guided hikes, presentations, crafts, and games to introduce the most misunderstood animals in the park. Check with the…
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Fall Next Generation Concert
Saturday, October 25, 2025
/ 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
This fall, make the beautiful drive to the Ozark Folk Center for the Next Generation Concert during Bean Festival in Mountain View, Arkansas on Saturday, October 25, 2025. You're sure to enjoy…
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Mountain View Fall Bluegrass Festival
Thursday, November 06, 2025
/ 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Tickets for Mountain View's annual fall bluegrass festival go on sale September 2, 2025, and go on sale each year after Labor Day, at **MOUNTAINVIEWBLUEGRASS.COM**. (Tickets are not sold by the Ozark…
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Mountain View Fall Bluegrass Festival
Friday, November 07, 2025
/ 11:45 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Tickets for Mountain View's annual fall bluegrass festival go on sale September 2, 2025, and go on sale each year after Labor Day, at **MOUNTAINVIEWBLUEGRASS.COM**. (Tickets are not sold by the Ozark…
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Women in the Woods Campout
Saturday, November 08, 2025 - Sunday, November 09, 2025
“Keep close to nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir Ladies, renew your spirit with time…
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Mountain View Fall Bluegrass Festival
Saturday, November 08, 2025
/ 12 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Tickets for Mountain View's annual fall bluegrass festival go on sale September 2, 2025, and go on sale each year after Labor Day, at **MOUNTAINVIEWBLUEGRASS.COM**. (Tickets are not sold by the Ozark…
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Women in the Woods
Join women empowering women in the outdoors. Lake Chicot State Park is hosting a space where you will make connections to the calm waters, scenic cypress trees, abundant wildlife,…
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Opt Outside Battlefield Tour
Friday, November 28, 2025
/ 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Lives were forever changed here on December 7, 1862. Join us for a 1-mile walk along the ridgeline where the heaviest fighting occurred during the Civil War Battle of Prairie Grove. Meet at the Borden…
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Opt Outside Historic House Tour
Friday, November 28, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
The families who settled here long before the Civil War share many of the same values and traditions we hold today. Explore the similarities and differences between our ways of life on this guided…
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Opt Outside Battlefield Tour
Friday, November 28, 2025
/ 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Lives were forever changed here on December 7, 1862. Join us for a 1-mile walk along the ridgeline where the heaviest fighting occurred during the Civil War Battle of Prairie Grove. Meet at the Borden…
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Ozark Holidays Craft Show
Saturday, November 29, 2025
/ 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Get away from the fuss and
flurry of the modern city and come to where holidays are about people and
craftsmanship is done by hand. Shop the Ozark Folk Center State Park Craft
Village during the Ozark…
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Christmas Open House
Saturday, December 06, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
See Petit Jean State Park’s Mather Lodge dressed in its Christmas finery. Enjoy family-oriented arts and crafts activities and seasonal entertainment. Contact the park for a…
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A Railroad Christmas Celebration
Saturday, December 13, 2025
/ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Come get into the holiday spirit with the staff at the Mammoth Spring State Park. Meet at the state park office at 5 p.m. where you'll be greeted by a park interpreter. There will be a guided hike…
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Annual Eagles Et Cetera Festival
Friday, January 23, 2026 - Sunday, January 25, 2026
Join us for the annual Eagles Et
Cetera Festival, the longest-running eagle awareness event in Arkansas, which
has taken place for over four decades. Celebrate the remarkable
conservation story of our…
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Territorial Arkansas Living History Fest
Friday, May 01, 2026
/ 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The past becomes the present at Davidsonville Historic State Park. Come explore the town as it would have been during a hey-day market week and explore the pattern of peoples and trades that made…
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Territorial Arkansas Living History School Day
Saturday, May 02, 2026
/ 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Trade the school books for hands-on-history at
Davidsonville Historic State Park as we celebrate 200 years since the construction of the oldest courthouse in Arkansas. Teachers, bring your class and…
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