Ozark Folk Center
When you visit the Ozark Folk Center, you'll encounter dramatic views of the Ozark Mountains during your scenic drive to the park.
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In the Arkansas Ozarks at Mountain View, you can experience the music, dance, crafts, and lore that have been passed from generation to generation since settlers first called these beautiful hills home. This unique state park is one of America's cultural treasures, a center dedicated to preserving and promoting the Ozark Mountain heritage.
On your Ozark vacation, talk with gifted artisans as they demonstrate pioneer crafts and homestead skills — like organic herb gardening — that were essential to early American settlers of these ancient hills. Enjoy Ozark mountain music throughout the day and night as musicians play traditional folk tunes on traditional instruments, such as autoharps, hammered dulcimers and banjos. If you're looking for more than a day trip can provide, consider an overnight stay at the park's Dry Creek Lodge, and register for one of the Folk Center's many workshops. Offered throughout the regular operating season, these workshops afford you personal instruction in musical instruments, Ozark heritage crafts, and organic gardening. Or, immerse yourself in the annual week-long Ozark Folk School, during which you can specialize in one traditional Ozark craft or music style, at an affordable cost.
Arkansas's Ozark Folk Center State Park is America's only facility that works at preserving the Ozark heritage and presenting it in such an entertaining way. To learn more, go to www.OzarkFolkCenter.com.
