Fayetteville, Arkansas May 30 – June 5, 2023
The fourth stop on our Arkansas tour was Fayetteville. We love botanical gardens so we visited the Cape Fear Botanical Gardens (I have no idea why the name is “Cape Fear”). The botanical garden was pretty small. Unfortunately we selected the day of the “little sprouts” program, so the place was mobbed with children.
We also stopped into a very small museum that was the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton when they were first married. It was a small museum, but certainly not the smallest presidential museum we have seen (that honor still goes to Millard Fillmore).
One of the reasons we were excited about Fayetteville was the 45 mile long Razorback Greenway that begins south of Fayetteville and extends north through Bentonville. It was a very nice trail and one of my favorites!
We took a day trip and visited Pea Ridge National Military Park the site of a civil war battle (March 1862) that decided the fate of Missouri. The short film was well done and the little museum was nice.
Inside the tavern:
We took another daytrip to Bentonville. Wow – what a nice town!. You can really tell that the Waltons put a lot of money in this town. We stopped in at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Arts which was spectacular!
We left Fayetteville and traveled to Eureka Springs (I combined Fort Smith and Eureka Springs into one post – “Arkansas”)
“Southern Nights” by Glen Campbell. Glen Campbell did not write the song, but when he sang the song he said that it reminded him of growing up in Arkansas.