Visiting Blytheville

Discover the gracious hospitality of Blytheville, where natural wonders and the Delta’s rich, fertile history meld with the “right now’ excitement of annual festivals, golfing and good times in the great outdoors. Feed your love of class architecture with classic samples of beautiful Old South Homes. Indulge your appetite in great Southern cooking. Blytheville will charm you in many ways.

The Great River Road National Scenic Byway winds through Blytheville and over to Gosnell, leading to a significant Archeology Survey at the Arkansas Aeroplex.  In fact, the area was once home to one of the largest and most sophisticated pre-Columbian Native American cultures in the history of our country. See our history too, in the evolving storefronts on Main Street and in the renovation of the Blytheville Historic Bus Depot—one of the only free-standing art-deco bus stations remaining in the U.S.

Activities abound too. Swing away at Thunder Bayou Golf Links on the Natural State Golf Trail.  Designed by noted course architects Ault, Clark and Associates, Thunder Bayou is reminiscent of the windswept Scottish courses where golf was born.  Arkansas is blest with the best of duck hunting, particularly at the Big Lake Wildlife Management Area.  And dove hunting in our fields is a must, as is fishing—Big Lake hold the state record for largemouth bass.

There is more. The Great River Heritage Museum, the former Strategic Air Command base, which supported a fleet of B-52s, and the Blytheville Sports Complex, which hosts baseball, softball and soccer; the fabulous “Light of the Delta”—a fantasy of holiday lights—all make the Greater Blytheville Area well worth a visit.