Texarkana, El Dorado & the Timberlands

Arkansas's first environmental education state park, built on the Magnesia Springs resort and a Boy Scout camp, with about 200 acres of mature forest kept as a natural area.

A park at the foot of the 3.3-mile Millwood Dam, built in 1966 on the Little River, where flooded timber makes serious bass fishing and the lake counts as a bird-conservation area.

A 117-acre park where Moro Bay and Raymond Lake meet the Ouachita River, home to the old Moro Bay Ferry, a cable ferry that ran from 1828 until bridges replaced it in 1992.

A 725-acre park on the lower of two 1961 lakes, where white sand marks an ancient shoreline and the visitor center carries a Poison Spring display eight miles from the battlefield.

The courthouse square and brick blocks of a town that jumped from 4,000 people to nearly 30,000 after the 1921 Busey well, listed on the National Register in 2003.

A Southwest Trail town that was Arkansas's Confederate capital from 1863 to 1865, then lost the railroad and kept its buildings, with a blacksmith shop and the 1836 courthouse.

An 1847 Greek Revival house in Camden that served as a stagecoach headquarters and, in April 1864, as General Steele's headquarters, with bullet holes still visible upstairs.

An 85-acre roadside battlefield west of Camden, where Confederates routed a Union foraging column on April 18, 1864, and many Black soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry were killed after surrendering.

The two-story Hervey Street house in Hope where Bill Clinton lived his first four years with his widowed mother and her parents, now a National Park Service site with a ranger-led tour.

The 1906 courthouse and square at the center of a town founded in 1853, where oil came in 1922, Southern Arkansas University grew from a farm school, and Jordan Jameson was burned to death in 1919.

A free state museum on the Smackover field, where a 112-foot derrick, a rebuilt 1920s boomtown street and working pumps tell how oil and bromine remade south Arkansas.