Arkansas Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places

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Summary: So much potential......!!
Review: After a week using this book (and its Oklahoma sibling) we were very disappointed. The *content* of the book is, in general, very good, interesting and readable. The problem is with the layout. The author jumps about, geographically, so that you don't really know how close (or far) a place is. It's the same with the Oklahoma book. I will undoubtedly buy other books in this series when we are visiting other states, but next time I will spend some hours highlighting the place name on each page.

I do like tbhe concept of these books, and the information was useful, but the books are not "geographically intuitive"!
More maps, or just better layout, would improve these books a lot.

In Arkansas, we found several other guidebooks more usable and user-friendly, notably "Arkansas Roadsides" by Bill Earngey, "A Roadside History of Arkansas" by Paulson, and the "AAA TourBook for AR, KS, MO and OK". The best local information came from Arkansas State Parks in their brilliant series of leaflets!

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Summary: Best Arkansas Guide I Found!
Review: As with any guide, some information may have changed since the last edition. However, I thoroughly enjoyed the path this guide led me on. I discoved an Arkansas I never imagined! Restaurants were on the money! Accomodation recommendations exceeded my expectations! I felt the content was honest, objective, adequately descriptive and thorough. My only real complaint was the Cave City Motor Lodge recommendation. The book should be updated in regards to it being barely open for business and the "restoration" is rather slow in coming. We looked at the few guides available for Arkansas and we still think this one is best.

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Summary: Do research before writing!
Review: I gave this book 2 out of five stars because it is informational. But the problem I found when looking at restaurants and places to stay that were in my area of the state I found many things were not right, such as spellings of names of restaurants. Also, she listed one place as only a restaurant and it is also a place to go for a weekend get away that is very neat. I only wonder about the rest of the information. It is fun to look at but I wouldn't use it as a guide when I travel to any of the places, lord knows I would probably be trying to get some place that did not exist as she had spelled it and look like a completely "dumb" tourist.