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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Pyatt, Everton and more in North Arkansas

This is the way it looked this morning at Rotary Ann, the roadside park just South of Pelsor. The morning was Chrisp and clean with no hint of incoming rain.

We had started North on Hwy 7, Rotary Ann was right at the 38 mile mark.
After a short break to take in the view, we continued North and took Hwy 123 at Lurton. Arkansas's Dragon Tail is a ride no one should miss.


Chris's Wide Glide looking good in the morning Sun, at a pull over on 123. There wasn't a lot of sand and gravel on the road but there was one really bad gravel spot on one of the tightest curves.



A view from the pull over. After a break, we continued on 123, going through Mt. Judea and crossing the Buffalo National River at Hasty landing.





After making a left on Hwy 65 then a right onto Hwy 206, we arrived at Everton, Ark.

I had never been there, it was a really interesting little town.


The old store.


This may have been the old Post Office. The flag pole was old, as was the Confederate flag blowing in the morning wind.


The door of the building had a more modern flag draped across it.


The old Everton Hotel, a huge old building. Next time I'm in the area, if I have time, I'll gonna ask about a tour.


Hwy 206 was a good ride, narrow with shoulders needing mowed. We finally reached the Junction with 125. In front of us was the old Eros, Ar. school house, the new one was next door.



We made a left on Hwy 125, passing the old Eros store and a newer boat. The buildings were all built with small rocks in this town.
We eventually reached Hwy 62 and made a right turn where we would again turn onto 125 N in a few miles.


Making a turn off of 62 onto 62B we crossed a one lane bridge and some railroad tracks and checked out the town of Pyatt. Not much in Pyatt anymore. Some old buildings and houses, which is what I like to photograph. I'll be back again for some more pictures.



Chris on Pyatt's main street.


Heading out the way we went in, on the one lane bridge.

We went back out to Hwy 62, found 125 N again and followed it to Hwy 14.
We made a left to go West on 14 all the way to Hwy 65, where we turned South towards Harrison, Ark.


We stopped at this Chinese place in Harrison. The buffet was very small, I didn't think the food was all that good, but we were hungry and it was good enough.

After eating, we continued on South on Hwy 7.

Which brings me to the "some people are stupid or something category".
We were going around a tight right hand curve just North of Jasper and there were two motorcycles stopped in the road, one was probably 2 or 3 feet out into it. That's all I have to say about that.

Nice view from the pull over South of the Cliff House.


Same pull over, our bikes.


Quite a few riders out today.

Looks likes they're having a good time.
We put over 250 miles on the bikes and if I didn't mention it earlier, most of it was curves.


After one more stop at Rotary Ann, we made it to our homes, it was a good day.

1 comment:

Zach said...

Sounds like you guys had a good ride. Wish I could have been on that ride too but I managed to be on another ride with some friends from Morrilton after having my appt changed to next week we ended up taking about a 251 mile ride up Hwy 95 north first off then hit more backroads and headed towards Oark then stopped to eat lunch at the Oark cafe then continued on to the Ozarks and after the Ozarks we headed back riding on the Pig trail heading towards Dardnelle then to Pottsville to top off the tanks the Hwy 64 to Morrilton being a good ride with beautiful weather. May have left out some roads but close enough for the idea..