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Motor Camping

Chapter 148: ARKANSAS
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A practical manual for automobile campers, surveying the movement's growth and the cost-saving potential of camping while outlining week-end and long-distance touring. It describes vehicle-mounted and ground tents, car beds and homemade outfits, trailers and motor bungalows, plus tools, stoves, refrigeration, water supplies and medical kits. Guidance is given on selecting camps, securing permission, sanitary disposal, forestry regulations and state park provisions, with chapters on firecraft, various cooking methods, provisioning and camp-site lists across the United States. Practical examples and step-by-step equipment and packing advice aim to help families and small groups plan safe, economical trips.

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ARKANSAS

Municipal Camp Sites

Town or City Charge
or Free
Toilet Drinking
Water
Fireplace
or Stove
Lights Bath or
Shower
Alma F Y Wood Y
Arkansas City F Y Wood
Batesville F Y Wood
Bentonville F Y Y Wood Y
Coal Hill F Well Wood
Cotter F Spring
Cotton Plant F Y
Eureka Springs F Springs Wood
Fayetteville F Y Y Y
Fort Smith F Y Y Y Y Y
Gentry F Y Well Wood
Green Forest F Y Y Wood Y
Jonesboro F Y Y Y Y
McGehee F Y
Marmaduke Permit F Wood
Mineral Springs F Y Y Y Y
Springdale F Y
Star City F Y Springs Wood
Van Buren F Y Y Y Y Y

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While there seems to be no system of State Forests in Arkansas and camp sites therein for the motor camper, Arkansas abounds in beauty spots, in mineral springs, and mountains where the camper is welcomed and where he may camp delightfully. Campers find attractive camping sites which may be freely used at such places as the city of Little Rock, Eureka Springs, Mena, Mt. Magazine, Mt. Nebo, Sulphur Springs, Mammoth Springs, Hardy Spring River, and Lake Chicot.

The Hot Springs National Park, in central Arkansas, is one of the most interesting spots in the country, and the vicinity is attractive to motor campers.

There are in the State of Arkansas the Arkansas National Forest near Hot Springs and the Ozark National Forest; the former has an area of 626,746 acres, nearly a thousand square miles, and the latter about half as large, 291,840 acres. The National Government has constructed good motor roads through these forests and provided hundreds of camping sites.