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Arkansas Off the Beaten Path, 5th: A Guide to Unique Places

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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!