Fayetteville BBBBQ
#22
#23
If you're coming in from the Oklahoma side, leaving Siloam Springs, take 59 to Van Buren. This is one hilly, twisty, tree lined roller coaster like stretch of smooth 2-lane.
Google maps shows it as 60 mi. to VanBuren, but you won't make it in an hour.
Siloam to Fayetteville via 16 shows only 28 mi and just as twisty, but never been this way.
I'm sure there will be plenty of folks making the runs around the lakes, and over to Eureka Springs, so traffic will probably be heavy. Hoping these other runs will be less congested.
Google maps shows it as 60 mi. to VanBuren, but you won't make it in an hour.
Siloam to Fayetteville via 16 shows only 28 mi and just as twisty, but never been this way.
I'm sure there will be plenty of folks making the runs around the lakes, and over to Eureka Springs, so traffic will probably be heavy. Hoping these other runs will be less congested.
Last edited by KSGG; 08-30-2009 at 11:22 AM.
#25
last year it was so crowded that the sidewalk was tuff to get through. it's a great event, but it would be much better if they had an actual event site rather than a two lane street, four blocks long to have it in. like a big park or something. hope they change over to a larger site soon.
I've been to both Sturgis and Daytona and they are just as crowded. I prefer this one because it's ten minutes from my house.
#26
Arkansas has a lot of gravel/dirt roads that meet up with the highways. Most of these happen to be in the curves and a lot of the time can be blind. I always encourage those not familiar with the area to keep this in mind as the gravel is not always easy to see on the chip-and-seal they like to put down as pavement.
#29
One of my favorite rides is to head east on State Highway 16 out of Fayetteville (incidentally, where the Tyson track center is), turn north on Highway 23 to Huntsville, then west on Highway 412 to Springdale, then back south on 540 to Fayetteville. It's a nice 100 mile loop through some really beautiful scenery.
I avoid Eureka Springs whenever possible. Oh, it's a nice ride out there and back and there's a nice Mexican restaurant there, but I never know if the thugs with guns in Eureka are anti-bike or bike tollerant this week and I'd just as soon blow it off. My friend used to live there and he said there were two factions running Eureka. One that made money off the bikes and one that did not. Whoever had the city council directed the thugs with guns to either leave the bikes alone or harrass them.
Some time ago, someone mentioned a restaurant/stop in the middle of nowhere (which describes most of Arkansas) somewhere southeast of Eureka. Anyone know the place? Like a biker-friendly place out there where people stop for a beer, etc. I should have printed out the directions. It wasn't near Rockhouse, was it?
I avoid Eureka Springs whenever possible. Oh, it's a nice ride out there and back and there's a nice Mexican restaurant there, but I never know if the thugs with guns in Eureka are anti-bike or bike tollerant this week and I'd just as soon blow it off. My friend used to live there and he said there were two factions running Eureka. One that made money off the bikes and one that did not. Whoever had the city council directed the thugs with guns to either leave the bikes alone or harrass them.
Some time ago, someone mentioned a restaurant/stop in the middle of nowhere (which describes most of Arkansas) somewhere southeast of Eureka. Anyone know the place? Like a biker-friendly place out there where people stop for a beer, etc. I should have printed out the directions. It wasn't near Rockhouse, was it?
#30
One of my favorite rides is to head east on State Highway 16 out of Fayetteville (incidentally, where the Tyson track center is), turn north on Highway 23 to Huntsville, then west on Highway 412 to Springdale, then back south on 540 to Fayetteville. It's a nice 100 mile loop through some really beautiful scenery.
I avoid Eureka Springs whenever possible. Oh, it's a nice ride out there and back and there's a nice Mexican restaurant there, but I never know if the thugs with guns in Eureka are anti-bike or bike tollerant this week and I'd just as soon blow it off. My friend used to live there and he said there were two factions running Eureka. One that made money off the bikes and one that did not. Whoever had the city council directed the thugs with guns to either leave the bikes alone or harrass them.
Some time ago, someone mentioned a restaurant/stop in the middle of nowhere (which describes most of Arkansas) somewhere southeast of Eureka. Anyone know the place? Like a biker-friendly place out there where people stop for a beer, etc. I should have printed out the directions. It wasn't near Rockhouse, was it?
I avoid Eureka Springs whenever possible. Oh, it's a nice ride out there and back and there's a nice Mexican restaurant there, but I never know if the thugs with guns in Eureka are anti-bike or bike tollerant this week and I'd just as soon blow it off. My friend used to live there and he said there were two factions running Eureka. One that made money off the bikes and one that did not. Whoever had the city council directed the thugs with guns to either leave the bikes alone or harrass them.
Some time ago, someone mentioned a restaurant/stop in the middle of nowhere (which describes most of Arkansas) somewhere southeast of Eureka. Anyone know the place? Like a biker-friendly place out there where people stop for a beer, etc. I should have printed out the directions. It wasn't near Rockhouse, was it?