You are in for a remarkable opportunity for reaching picturesque, colorful, and fascinating travel destinations. Side by side, in one sector of our nation, one is surrounded with choices for travel sites such as exotic New Mexico, majestic Colorado, diversified Louisiana, and rustic, homespun, Arkansas, and vast Texas with a variety of geographic landscape from desert to hill country.  There are fantastic B&B located throughout the state!

There is no time like the present to plan an Arkansas trip (terrorist in Arkansas?). Arkansas is ready to help you plan your vacation if you go online at http://www.arkansas.com/vacation_kit/. At this well-laid-out Web site you will find e-mail addresses to order fishing brochures, the State Park Guide, maps, calendar of events, adventure guides, and plenty more of the state's hottest and most in demand activities. There is a form to fill out to receive your special vacation guide from the state.

A great place to visit is www.lapurchase.org for information on the Louisiana Purchase State Park and also www.arkansasstateparks.com î (From Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, http://www.arkansas.com/default.asp)

Arkansas offers the family enchanting hiking and camping, fantastic golfing and unsurpassed fly, live bait, or artificial bait fishing, fly fishing for trout (the White River has some of world's largest brown trout - I recommend the Mountain Home area), Ozark Mountains, float trips, antique collecting, Civil War history, exciting city life and quaint towns and villages. A few days looking at the Department of Park and Tourism brochures online and you will realize why tourist trade is flourishing so well. If you are into festivals one look at the Calendar of Events at their home page listed above and you will see many illustrious events taking place in this ìall-time-popularî state of Arkansas. Now is the time for vacation planning, and Arkansas is ready to welcome you with open arms.

There are Bed & Breakfast in beautiful locatons all over the state.  Here are some links that will help locate them. Below is the Ridgeway House of Eureka Springs.

http://www.arkansas.worldweb.com/WheretoStay/BedBreakfasts/index.html

This is the Wildwood B&B in Little Rock. www.wildwood1884.com/

http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/

Happy travel planning.

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