Beaver Lake sits in the Ozark Highlands, clear water framed by quiet hills, and on September 19 and 20 it becomes the site of the OZ Mile Swim Festival. Bonnie Adams built this race so that every kind of swimmer...

Tight mountain roads wind through historic downtown streets, and this year enough horsepower rolls through to rattle every storefront window. This is the 55th year for one of the Ozarks’ classic car traditions. THE DEETS 📅 Friday, September 18, 2026...

If you love German-made cars, Eureka Springs is where you want to be at the end of August. The Ozark Euro Rally fills the hills with engines revving and owners swapping stories, more interested in timing belts than trophies. You...

If you have ever tried to parallel park in Downtown Eureka Springs, you already know these streets were not built for flat, easy anything. Once a year, those same hills and switchbacks turn into a race course, and you get...

Eureka Springs has been throwing this party since before your grandparents’ record collections existed, and the hills around it still fill up with fiddles, banjos and folk art every September. THE DEETS 📅 Thursday, September 3, 2026 – Sunday, September...

Somewhere between check-in and checkout, a guest becomes a victim, and it’s up to you to figure out who did it. Keith & Margo’s Murder Mystery Weekend won’t hand you a briefing packet or an obvious villain. What you get...

Thirty-five years in, the arrangement still holds. Eureka Springs is a town built on switchbacks and stone staircases, a place where the roads were laid down around the hills instead of through them, and it turns out to be a...

Jeep engines are about to drown out the birdsong in Eureka Springs. Owners from across the country are rolling into the Ozark Mountains for four days centered on one thing: their rigs. You don’t need a Wrangler with mud still...

Thirty-four years in, the Eureka Springs VW Show is still drawing Volkswagen lovers from across the region to one of Arkansas’s most distinct little towns. Not bad for a car show. THE DEETS 📅 Friday, August 28, 2026– Sunday, August...

You don’t need to know how to play a drum to have a good time at Basin Spring Park this Saturday, August 1. The monthly Drum Circle has been rolling through downtown Eureka Springs since April, and it turns the...