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The Arkansas Scenic Byways Program is a list of highways, mainly
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
s, that have been designated by the
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and en ...
(ArDOT) as
scenic highway
A scenic route, tourist road, tourist route, tourist drive, holiday route, theme route, or scenic byway is a specially designated road or waterway that travels through an area of natural or cultural beauty. It often passes by scenic viewpoint ...
s. The
Arkansas General Assembly
The General Assembly of Arkansas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 ...
designates routes for scenic byway status upon successful nomination. For a highway to be declared scenic, a group interested in preserving the scenic, cultural, recreational, and historic qualities of the route must be created. Mayors of all communities along the route and county judges from each affected county must be included in the organization. Scenic highways are marked with a circular shield in addition to regular route markers.
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and en ...
br>Scenic Byways Program.
Retrieved July 8, 2011.
There are currently 11 scenic routes that have been designated Arkansas state scenic byways. Three of these byways are also
National Scenic Byway
A National Scenic Byway is a road recognized by the United States Department of Transportation for one or more of six "intrinsic qualities": archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic. The program was established by Co ...
s.
List of byways
Roads in ''italics'' are also National Scenic Byways.
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Scenic Highway 7
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Boston Mountains Scenic Loop
The Boston Mountains Scenic Loop is one of ten Arkansas Scenic Byways. There are two different paths that constitute the loop, Interstate 49 and U.S. Route 71.
Route description
I-49
The route runs through the Boston Mountains (a subsection of T ...
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Crowley's Ridge Parkway
Crowley's Ridge Parkway is a National Scenic Byway in northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel along Crowley's Ridge in the United States. Motorists can access the parkway from US Route 49 (US 49) at its southern terminus near the Hele ...
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Great River Road
The Great River Road is a collection of state and local roads that follow the course of the Mississippi River through ten states of the United States. They are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Miss ...
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Interstate 530 Scenic Byway
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Mount Magazine Scenic Byway
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Ozark Highlands Scenic Byway
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Pig Trail Scenic Byway
The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus ...
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Sylamore Scenic Byway
The Sylamore Scenic Byway is a scenic route in the Arkansas Scenic Byways program. The route runs through the Sylamore Ranger District of the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas for in Stone County, Arkansas, Stone County. It passes through undevel ...
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Talimena Scenic Drive
The Talimena Scenic Drive is a National Scenic Byway in Kiamichi Country, 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 ...
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* West–Northwest Scenic Byway
Gallery
Scenic Byway 7 in Arkansas.jpg, Highway 7 in the Ouachita Mountains
The Ouachita Mountains (), simply referred to as the Ouachitas, are a mountain range in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. They are formed by a thick succession of highly deformed Paleozoic strata constituting the Ouachita Fold and Thru ...
I-540 near Winslow, Arkansas.jpg, Interstate 49 winds through the Boston Mountains near Winslow as part of the Boston Mountains Scenic Loop
Great River Road in Mississippi River State Park 001.jpg, Crowley's Ridge Parkway and the Great River Road run together in Mississippi River State Park
Mt. Magazine State Park 005.jpg, Mt. Magazine Scenic Byway
Boxley Valley 001.jpg, Ozark Highlands Scenic Byway in Boxley Valley
The Big Buffalo Valley Historic District, also known as the Boxley Valley Historic District, is notable as a cultural landscape in Buffalo National River. It comprises the Boxley Valley in northern Arkansas, near the town of Ponca. The valley i ...
Highway 5, 9 and 14 in Mountain View, AR 003.jpg, Sylamore Scenic Byway near Mountain View
Highway 88 at Queen Wilhelmina State Park.jpg, Talimena Scenic Drive in Queen Wilhelmina State Park
Queen Wilhelmina State Park is a unit of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism in the Ouachita Mountains.
The original "Castle in the Sky" lodge was built in 1898 on 2,681-foot Rich Mountain, in Polk County, Arkansas. The park is on Talimena ...
See also
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References
External links
Arkansas Parks and Recreation: Scenic Byways
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Scenic Byways
Roads in Arkansas
Tourist attractions in Arkansas