Traffic is light on weekdays once leaf peeping season is over. Buffalo River byways become quiet bike routes with sights to ...

PONCA — Water slips a notch on the totem pole of tourism during autumn in Buffalo River country. Elk, especially big, majestic bull elk, draw hundreds to the river valley in September and October.

There’s no bad time to visit the Buffalo National river, even when there’s barely a trickle in the stream. That was obvious during a Sunday drive to the river last year in March. There were trails to ...

A rack of pointed antlers rose high above the bull elk parading its majesty in a golden meadow near the Buffalo National River. Binoculars and zoom lenses cradled in the hands of wildlife watchers ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ARKANSAS (KNWA/KFTA) — If you need a break ...

ELK ON EXHIBIT: Live and stuffed, at Boxley. Ponca Creek gurgles behind the Ponca Elk Education Center on Highway 43 in Boxley Valley. The log lodge was built with taxpayer dollars in 2002 by Game and ...

Neil Maynard of Stuttgart leans on an iron fence just off of AR Highway Hwy 43 south of Ponca, smiling as he trains his iPhone on a herd of wild elk. He and his wife, Mary Ann, made the three-hour ...