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Jonesboro, Arkansas

A restored former movie theater now serves as a performing arts center. Touring companies and special productions throughout the year. Art galleries, classes in dance, music, drama, literary arts.

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Crowley's Ridge National Scenic Parkway

National scenic byway follows the 198-mile length of the Delta's only "highlands;"

Jonesboro, AR Scenic Views


Arkansas State University Museum

Directions: Located on the ASU campus Collection of history, natural history and American Indians; regional history museum; paleontology, native American, and "old town" Arkansas exhibits;

Jonesboro, AR Museums

Craighead Forest Lake

Craighead Forest Lake is an 80-acre recreational impoundment located south of Jonesboro on Crowley's Ridge. The lake serves as the focal point of the area's largest city park, which offers fishing, hiking, playgrounds, swimming, camping, pavilions, marina and launch area.

Jonesboro, AR Recreation

Forrest Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center

Directions: Located off Lawson Road and Ark. 141, south of Jonesboro The second of four nature centers constructed by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the $4.3-million project includes exhibits on origins and history of the Ridge, topographical models and a 30

Jonesboro, AR Nature Centers

Things to do near Jonesboro, AR

Phillips County Museum

Directions: Downtown Historic District Built in 1891; artifacts include early paintings, Thomas Edison Collection, Native ...

Marked Tree Delta Area Museum

Behind a late 1800s general store facade, this museum has a replica of a small-town community hospital and an early history g...

Great River Road National Scenic Byway

The Great River Road, Arkansas's portion of the Mississippi River Parkway, runs for 363 miles paralleling the Mississippi Riv...

Crowley's Ridge Raceway

1/4-mile oval dirt track ...