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Highway 88 (AR 88, Ark. 88, and Hwy. 88) is a designation for five
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s in
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. All routes are maintained by the
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(ArDOT).


Oklahoma to Washita

Highway 88 (AR 88, Ark. 88, and Hwy. 88) is a state highway of in Western Arkansas. The route begins at the
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state line at OK-1 and runs west to
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at Washita. Between the western terminus and
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, the route passes through the
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and is designated as part of the
Talimena Scenic Drive The Talimena Scenic Drive is a National Scenic Byway in southeastern Oklahoma and extreme western Arkansas spanning a stretch of Oklahoma State Highway 1 (SH-1) and Arkansas Highway 88 (AR 88) from Talihina, Oklahoma, to Mena, Arkansas. ...
, an
Arkansas Scenic Byway Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage la ...
and
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.


Route description

At Mena, it runs along the north direction of U.S. 71 (geographically east) for until U.S. 71 turns back to the north. From there, Highway 88 continues east for parallelling the
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and passing through the communities of Ink, Cherry Hill, Pine Ridge and Oden before intersecting
U.S. Highway 270 U.S. Route 270 (US 270) is a spur of US 70. It travels for from Liberal, Kansas at US 54 and US 83 to White Hall, Arkansas at Interstate 530 (I-530) and US 65. It travels through the states of Arkansas, Oklahom ...
at Pencil Bluff. Highway 88 then continues east another passing through the community of Sims before ending at
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at Washita.


Major intersections

Mile markers reset at some concurrencies.


Hot Springs


Route description

Highway 88 begins and ends at Highway 7 in
Hot Springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...
. It runs about 3 miles and has an intersection with the
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-
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bypass of Hot Springs along its route.


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Lonsdale


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Benton


Route description

A second segment of Highway 88 begins at an intersection with
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in Benton, runs for a few blocks on Military Road (a former route of U.S. 67- 70 and US 70C/ I-30 Business Loop), then runs west approximately 2½ miles as Alcoa Road before ending at Benton Parkway.


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Altheimer to Reydell


Route description

Highway 88 begins at
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at Altheimer and runs south and east passing through the communities of Cornerstone, Sweden, and Swan Lake before ending at Highway 11 at Reydell.


Major intersections


See also

*
List of state highways in Arkansas The following is a list of state highways in Arkansas. The state does not use a numbering convention. Generally the two-digit odd numbered highways run north–south with a few exceptions; and even-numbered two-digit state highways run east–we ...


References


External links

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