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Open to visit in Arkansas

38 dossiers in Arkansas carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

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Crescent Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Hotel in Eureka Springs; research record.

4 claims · 3 legends→

Railroad Corridor

Gurdon Light

Gurdon, Arkansas

Railroad corridor in Gurdon; research record.

3 claims · 3 legends→

High confidence

White River Monster Folklore Area

Newport, Arkansas

River in Arkansas; research record.

3 claims · 3 legends→

Devil’s Den State Park

West Fork, Arkansas

State park in West Fork; research record.

3 claims · 3 legends→

Ozark Howler country

Fayetteville, Arkansas

The Boston Mountains—home of the horned Ozark Howler.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Pea Ridge National Military Park

Pea Ridge, Arkansas

March 1862—the battle that saved Missouri for the Union.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Petit Jean State Park

Morrilton, Arkansas

The mountain named for a girl who dressed as a boy to follow love.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Rush

The zinc boomtown on the Buffalo—silent since the 1960s.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Arlington Hotel

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Capone’s Hot Springs hotel—the 1924 grande dame across from the Row.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Basin Park Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

1905 limestone hotel in the crooked-street town—Eureka’s second legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Judge Parker’s court and the gallows—"the hangman’s" ground.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Poison Spring Battlefield

Camden, Arkansas

April 18, 1864—the ambush and massacre that stained the Camden Expedition.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Toltec Mounds

Scott, Arkansas

The Plum Bayou mounds—1,000-year-old earthworks older than the name suggests.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Rohwer Relocation Center

Rohwer, Arkansas

The camp where 8,000 Japanese Americans were held—and George Takei grew up.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Peel Mansion

Bentonville, Arkansas

Colonel Peel’s 1875 Italianate—Bentonville’s grand survivor.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Eureka Springs Historic District

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

The crooked-street town built on the springs—where nothing is level.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The federal reserve older than Yellowstone—the springs and the bathhouse row.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Sultana site

Marion, Arkansas

April 27, 1865—the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Elaine

Elaine, Arkansas

September 30-October 1, 1919—the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history.

2 claims · 1 legend→

USS Sultana

Marion, Arkansas

April 27, 1865—the steamboat that killed 1,800 freedmen.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Parkin Archeological State Park

Parkin, Arkansas

Casqui—the Mississippian town de Soto visited in 1541.

Fordyce Bathhouse

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The grandest of Bathhouse Row—1915 marble and stained glass, now the park’s visitor center.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Quapaw Baths

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The 1922 Spanish Colonial bathhouse—still taking the waters.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Prairie Grove Battlefield

Prairie Grove, Arkansas

December 7, 1862—the last major battle in northwest Arkansas.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Marks’ Mills Battlefield

New Edinburg, Arkansas

April 25, 1864—the wagon train swallowed whole.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Jenkins’ Ferry Battlefield

Leola, Arkansas

April 30, 1864—the rain-soaked fight that ended the Camden Expedition.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Jerome Relocation Center

Jerome, Arkansas

The Delta camp that held 8,000—Arkansas’s other incarceration site.

1 claim · 1 legend→

War Eagle Mill

Hindsville, Arkansas

The working watermill on War Eagle Creek—third on the site since 1832.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Arkansas Post National Memorial

Gillett, Arkansas

The first European settlement in the lower Mississippi—1686.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Hampson Archeological Museum

Wilson, Arkansas

Nodena—the duck-pot culture that de Soto also met.

Mount Magazine

Paris, Arkansas

Arkansas’s highest point—2,753 feet above the Arkansas River valley.

Ka-Do-Ha Indian Village

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

The excavated mound village near the diamond field.

Crater of Diamonds

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

The world’s only public diamond mine—where the Uncle Sam was found.

Mammoth Spring

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Nine million gallons an hour—the Ozarks’ great spring.

Poison Spring Battle Site

Chidester, Arkansas

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Submerged Ghost Town

Monte Ne Resort Site

Rogers, Arkansas

Submerged ghost town in Arkansas; research record.

Rush Historic District

Ghost town in Rush; research record.

Ghost Town Archaeological Park

Davidsonville Historic State Park

Pocahontas, Arkansas

Ghost town archaeological park in Arkansas; research record.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026