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Arkansas
 The eastern border of Arkansas, the Natural State, meanders along the Mississippi River, which gives the State its shape. Arkansas is a vacation destination for outdoor sportsmen and geocashers who can go geocaching, scavenger hunting, with their global positioning devices in 40 Arkansas state parks.
Little Rock is the state capital and home of the Clinton Presidential Center. Arkansas also has lots of festivals, like the Dogwood Festival in the spring and music festivals throughout the State, from the Mississippi Delta, home of the blues, to the Ozark Mountains where visitors enjoy traditional Ozark Mountain music and dance. The Ozark Mountains offer waterfalls and scenic vistas for hiking, backpacking, camping, sports fishing, hunting, and rock climbing. There are many quaint villages and towns throughout Arkansas that reflect the southern mountain culture and have arts and crafts shops with hand-made gifts. In addition to its many state parks, Arkansas has two national parks and national forests. RV campers can wind through the scenic highways south of Pine Bluff and north of Conway and stop at the many public and private campgrounds. Because Arkansas has many rivers, lakes and forests, its visitors enjoy parasailing, power boating, rafting, jet skiing, biking, sailing, canoeing,  kayaking, and bird watching.
Flatbottom johnboats that navigate sallow waters and give tourist different perspectives of the waters below the dams on its rivers are unique to Arkansas. Termal springs are another interesting tourist
destination where visitors from all over the world basque in the hot
curative waters of the springs. Vacationers, who seek other types of adventures, can enjoy cultural and historical features, like the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources, Prairie County Museum, Ozark Folk Center, Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park, or Civil War battlefields. Golfing is available at the many excellent courses throughout the State as well as horse, greyhound, and auto racing, including dirt track and drag racing. The Arkansas River Valley hosts the State's Wine Country and is home to Fort Smith which, until 1907, bordered the Indian Territory. In Southern Arkansas, tourists can visit El Dorado where the Arkansas oil boom began and was home to "wealth and wild times." Travelers can fly into Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Texarkana using regional airlines, or drive through Arkansas on the interstate highways (I-40, I-30, and I-55), or arrive via the Mississippi River.
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