Arkansas Game Travel Question
Ok, so I saw the K-State game question and it had me thinking.
While I will not, more than likely, be going to Manhattan, I am planning to make my way to Fayetteville. I was going to make hotel arrangements this week.
With that in mind, can anyone recommend a place close to campus and, in general, centrally located for the weekend. We will probably be leaving Thursday and will stay Friday and Saturday nights in Fayetteville. Recommendations for bars, restaurants, night life, etc. would help as well.
Also, are there any plans for Cajuns fan to congregate/ socialize/ party the Friday PM before the game Saturday? Not sure what our number of traveling fans will be, but it would be nice to have a UL establishment Friday night before tailgating begins in earnest Saturday.
Thanks in advance and GEAUX CAJUNS!
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I don't know about Fayetteville, but my cousin from Erath has a sushi bar in Little Rock. I'm thinking of partying there and then driving up to Hog heaven in the Morning. Anyone else staying in Little Rock?
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By car it is a very hard one day trip for me. I refuse to fly commercial so there ya go. Maybe I can get on as one of the fans who flies with the team like I did when we went to play Utah State so long ago.
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Probably driving up to Fayetteville for the game this year, I am really starting to feel something here!!!
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Anybody got the game times for Arkansas and K State???
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Cajunmac
Ok, so I saw the K-State game question and it had me thinking.
While I will not, more than likely, be going to Manhattan, I am planning to make my way to Fayetteville. I was going to make hotel arrangements this week.
With that in mind, can anyone recommend a place close to campus and, in general, centrally located for the weekend. We will probably be leaving Thursday and will stay Friday and Saturday nights in Fayetteville. Recommendations for bars, restaurants, night life, etc. would help as well.
Also, are there any plans for Cajuns fan to congregate/ socialize/ party the Friday PM before the game Saturday? Not sure what our number of traveling fans will be, but it would be nice to have a UL establishment Friday night before tailgating begins in earnest Saturday.
Thanks in advance and GEAUX CAJUNS!
I was fortunate to get a Frat Brother living in Fayetteville to get me reservations in Springdale,AR . He was telling me he could not find a room for us in Fayetteville so he went elsewhere
Geaux Cajuns.
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Boomer
Anybody got the game times for Arkansas and K State???
Arkansas game time is still TBA
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USLJim
I was fortunate to get a Frat Brother living in Fayetteville to get me reservations in Springdale,AR . He was telling me he could not find a room for us in Fayetteville so he went elsewhere
Geaux Cajuns.
Springdale is where I have room too
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Is there a particular reason ya'll are driving through Little Rock? Seems kind of out of the way.
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Suggest Lafayette to Texarkana to Fort Smith then on to Fayetteville?
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Suggest Lafayette to Texarkana to Fort Smith then on to Fayetteville?
Beau, I have family in Ft. Smith; the drive to Fayetteville through Ft. Smith is scenic, but not quick. Here to Shreveport is fine and from Texarkana on is as well. Shreveport to Texarkana is not so good. It HAS been a while since I made the trip, though. It may be better now.
That being said, I would go that way rather than through Little Rock.
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I'm from the Texarkana area and went to school in Fayetteville back in the dark ages. Unless I had family I was going to visit in Little Rock, I would definitely take the straight shot through Texarkana and Fort Smith. I-40 from LR to Alma is no picnic either. One of the roughest stretches of interstate I have ever driven.
Hwy 71 north of Shreveport isn't great, but not far after you cross the state line you hit what will some year be I-49. Gets easier then.
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BeauCajun
Suggest Lafayette to Texarkana to Fort Smith then on to Fayetteville?
That is the most direct route and very scenic. Also a route with a lot of two lane mountain (curvy) highways. Be prepared to go a little slow at times. Very scenic. Going through Little Rock is a lot out of the way but is mostly interstate. I am going through Texarkana and Fort Smith. I would suggest an overnight stay at the Queen Wilhemina Hotel on the peak of Rich Mountian outside of Mena or the Mount Magazine Lodge near Paris if you can get there on the way up or on the way back. Both are run by the Arkansas State Parks System. Because of the Labor Day holidays they may already be booked. Also try to stop in Altus, Arkansas (just off 1-30 near Ozark) and taste the wines at Mt. Bethel Winery. Definitely worth the stop. Sunday after the game take a short drive to Eureka Springs a village that will take you back to the 1920's.
Lots of stuff to do on the way up and on the way back regardless of which way you go.
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Who do we contact for RV parking at U of Ark?
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Who do we contact for RV parking at U of Ark?
http://parking.uark.edu/9.php
http://parking.uark.edu/football_rv.pdf
