Arkansas State Parks Celebrates New Year with First Day Hikes

Arkansas State Parks will host free, guided hikes in our state parks on New Year’s Day as part of America’s State Parks First Day Hikes initiative in all 50 states. […]
City Presents Kessler Mountain Master Plan Draft and Seeks Public Comment

A chance to make your ideas and thoughts known, The Kessler Mountain Master Plan The City of Fayetteville invites citizens and interested persons or groups to a public meeting on […]
The 2016 Endurance Mountain Bike Season

It may feel like the mountain bike race season is winding down in Arkansas with the end of the Arkansas Mountain Bike Championship Series (AMBCS) at the Attila the Hun […]
“Where’s the forks?” Better Practices on Coordinating Responsible Events

By Brannon Pack, Events Coordinator, Ozark Off-Road Cyclists (OORC) Organizing and coordinating large scale mountain bike races and festivals comes with a price… responsibility. A lot of that “responsibility” can […]
OptOutside – Where there’s a Will….

Enjoying the outdoors is still pretty simple even on a soaking wet day like today. All it takes is a raincoat, a decent pair of shoes and a sense of […]
The Beginner Bike Buyers Guide

Last year we posted an article on the pros and cons of buying a bike from a big box store. Many of the comments we received had to do with a […]
New Traditions, the end of Black Friday

After gorging ourselves on Thanksgiving meals, watching football, drinking, tip-toeing around family issues, etc., the American tradition is to get up incredibly early the next morning and go stand in […]
Arkansas’ Scary Places – Halloween Hauntings

It’s pretty well known that around the Arkansas Outside International offices, strategically centered here in the middle of the state, Halloween reigns supreme. We tend to outdo the rest of […]
Welcome to the Party

This weekend, I attended a party, and a bike race broke out. Okay, it was actually billed as a bike race, but I’ve been to this annual event, and it […]
AHTD to Hold “30 Crossing” Public Involvement Meeting in North Little Rock

Below is the news release concerning the public meeting tonight on the AHTD plan to widen I-30 across the Arkansas River. As a promoter of the outdoor lifestyle in […]



