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Harrison, Arkansas
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In addition to having all the motels and grocery stores you'll need to stock up the car, Harrison also has a nice, clean downtown, that's worth a brief walk-around.  The Boone County Courthouse (circa 1909) is at the center of it all.

Harrison's old theater, the Lyric, was built 20 years after the courthouse.  It's now operated by the Ozark Arts Council.  Before 1929, the town had another Lyric Theater, but it couldn't accommodate "talkies", so the second theater was built.

In Harrison, you're only about 30 miles away from the vacation destination of Branson, Missouri, and only about 70 miles from Historic Route 66.  Both are just up the road on US Hwy. 65.

Harrison marks the northernmost point on my trip, but not the westernmost.  On the way out of town, I located Arkansas Route 43...

... a country road that provides a relaxing drive through farmland.  In many ways, I thought Route 43 (and the routes that followed on Day 6: 21, 16, and 23) was more scenic than the better-known Arkansas Route 7.

Route 43 eventually rises from the relatively flat farmlands, into the hills.  This is the view at a viewpoint, after the road climbs towards Gaither Mountain.  I'm not completely sure what hills you're seeing in the distance, but I think they are (from the left) Pilot Mountain, Boat Mountain, Sulphur Mountain, and Fodderstack Mountain.

Beyond the viewpoint, there aren't a lot of opportunities to see the surrounding lowlands, but I still got the feeling that I was driving on top of the world.

Here's a dash-cam time-lapse video of the drive from Harrison to my first stop of the day, Hide-out Hollow:

 

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