Sport Touring Routes
Route Type: Twisty, Destination
Navigation difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 200 Miles
Lunch Stop: Ozark Cafe
Direction: East
Comments: Built for sport-touring riders, the Jasper Twist & Dine combines sweeping pavement, tight mountain curves, scenic overlooks, and classic Ozark small towns. Departing from Springdale, the route travels east through Huntsville before following AR-74 into Jasper for a stop at the historic Ozark Café. From there, the ride continues through Deer and Pettigrew on AR-16, delivering mile after mile of elevation changes and entertaining curves before returning to Springdale.
Come ready for a full day of great roads, beautiful scenery, and classic Arkansas riding. Watch for wildlife, changing road conditions, and decreasing-radius turns throughout the route.
Weekend Route - This route is a Weekend ride. It bypasses the War Eagle Mill Craft Event on AR12. This route will avoid all of the traffic from an event that draws oner 100K people over the weekend.
Week Day Route
Route Type: Twisty & Destination
Navigation difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 190 Miles
Lunch Stop: Oark General Store
Direction: East & South
Comments: Point your motorcycle toward one of Arkansas’s most legendary backroad destinations—the historic Oark General Store. This sport-touring route delivers an entertaining mix of flowing sweepers, tight mountain curves, elevation changes, forest scenery, and quiet Ozark highways. The general store provides the perfect mid-ride stop for a hearty meal, homemade pie, and conversation with fellow riders before tackling the return journey.
Expect remote roads, limited services, wildlife, and changing pavement conditions. Arrive fueled, ride within your limits, and save room for pie!
Route Type: Twisty Destination
Navigation difficulty: Upper Moderate
Distance: 195 Miles
Lunch Stop: Oark General Store
Direction: South East
Comments: Experience one of Arkansas’s most famous motorcycle roads on this 195-mile tour through the heart of the Ozarks. The route travels through Huntsville before tackling the legendary Pig Trail Scenic Byway on AR-23. From there, riders will enjoy the curves of Cass-Oark Road, AR-215, AR-103, AR-21, and AR-16 before returning through Fayetteville and back to Springdale.
With approximately four hours of riding, this route features tight mountain curves, flowing sweepers, elevation changes, forested scenery, and remote Ozark backroads. Fuel and services can be limited, so begin with a full tank and allow additional time for stops. Watch for wildlife, loose gravel, and changing pavement conditions—especially in the tighter mountain sections.
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Comments: This 182-mile sport-touring route explores the scenic borderlands of Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri. Riders will travel through Huntsville and Eureka Springs before crossing the Little Golden Gate Bridge and continuing toward Roaring River State Park. The journey then follows a collection of entertaining Missouri backroads to the Cliffside Café in Noel before returning to Springdale through Gentry.
Expect nearly four hours of riding filled with rolling hills, sweeping pavement, tight curves, river valleys, bluffs, and quiet Ozark communities. Allow additional time for fuel, scenic stops, and lunch. Watch for wildlife, changing road conditions, and decreasing-radius turns along the way.
Weekend Route - This route is a Weekend ride. It bypasses the War Eagle Mill Craft Event on AR12. This route will avoid all of the traffic from an event that draws oner 100K people over the weekend.
Week Day Route
Route Type: Twisty Destination
Navigation difficulty: Upper Moderate
Distance: 195 Miles
Lunch Stop: Oark General Store
Direction: South East
Comments: Experience one of Arkansas’s most famous motorcycle roads on this 195-mile tour through the heart of the Ozarks. The route travels through Huntsville before tackling the legendary Pig Trail Scenic Byway on AR-23. From there, riders will enjoy the curves of Cass-Oark Road, AR-215, AR-103, AR-21, and AR-16 before returning through Fayetteville and back to Springdale.
With approximately four hours of riding, this route features tight mountain curves, flowing sweepers, elevation changes, forested scenery, and remote Ozark backroads. Fuel and services can be limited, so begin with a full tank and allow additional time for stops. Watch for wildlife, loose gravel, and changing pavement conditions—especially in the tighter mountain sections.
Route Type: Destination
Navigation difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Distance:160 Miles
Lunch Stop: Multiple Choices depending on when you are hungry.
Direction: North
Comments: This 160-mile ride combines Ozark backroads with a journey through Civil War history. Departing from Springdale, the route travels through Rogers, Huntsville, Berryville, and Shell Knob before looping through Southwest Missouri and returning toward Pea Ridge and Bentonville.
The featured destination is Pea Ridge National Military Park, site of the pivotal March 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge. Riders can explore the preserved battlefield and learn how this important Union victory helped determine control of Missouri and northern Arkansas.
Along the way, enjoy approximately three hours of riding across rolling countryside, forested highways, sweeping curves, and quiet communities in two states. Allow additional time to tour the battlefield, take photographs, refuel, and enjoy scheduled stops.
Route Type: Twisty
Navigation difficulty: East
Distance: 319 Miles
Lunch Stop: Multiple Options depending on your hunger level.
Direction: East
Comments: The Push Mountain Marathon is a demanding 318-mile sport-touring adventure packed with some of the best curves in the Arkansas Ozarks. Beginning in Springdale, the route travels through Fayetteville, Huntsville, Ponca, Jasper, Big Flat, Norfork, and Harrison while connecting legendary roads such as AR-16, AR-74, AR-21, AR-123, AR-14, and AR-341—better known as Push Mountain Road.
Expect more than six hours of riding before adding fuel, food, and rest stops. The route rewards experienced riders with tight technical bends, fast sweepers, elevation changes, mountain scenery, and mile after mile of entertaining pavement.
This is a full-day ride, so leave early with a full tank and allow plenty of time to complete the route before dark. Fuel services can be limited in remote areas. Watch for wildlife, loose gravel, changing pavement, and decreasing-radius turns. Ride within your limits and take breaks as needed.
This route will be lead by John Ruff. The ride is limited to 9 riders. Sign up at the even route table.
Route Type: Twisty Destination
Navigation difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 197 Miles
Lunch Stop: Berryville as a group
Direction from Marietta: North East
Comments: Ride to Nighthawk - https://www.nighthawkcustom.com/ - 220 mile loop - Limited to 9 riders
This ride will take the group over to Nighthawk Customs firearms in Berryville, Arkansas
for a tour of their facility. We will have lunch in Berryville and begin our tour back to
Springdale.
The ride will leave from Onyx Coffee in Downtown Springdale (100 East Emma) at 9 am
on October 19, 2026. Please arrive with a full tank of fuel and early enough if you need
some breakfast and to get caffeinated. Onyx Coffee has a reputation for being one of
the best coffee joints in Northwest Arkansas and has received international awards for
their coffee.
We will depart from Onyx Coffee and head east with a quick stop at the War Eagle Mill.
This will be a great place to get some pics and we want to limit the stop to about 15
minutes. We will depart from the Mill and make our way towards Eureka Springs via
HWY 12, 127, and HWY 23 (Pig trail). We then sneak down to HWY 221 to continue
our trek to Berryville, AR. This will be a great opportunity for some action shots keeping
in mind we have an 11:00 am appointment for our tour.
We will arrive at Nighthawk Customs at 11 am and have our tour of their facility. You may want to have your money/credit card available if you see something that “trips your trigger”. They pride themselves on one gunsmith per gun. After our tour we will have
lunch in Berryville at the Original Ozark Café. We will also fuel up here as well before we depart town.
Departing Berryville on Hwy 21 going to Kingston. If you remember the Clinton’s White Water scandal, we will ride right by the bank involved as we go through the Kingston square and head towards the Boxley Valley. We will traverse the Boxley Valley crossing over the Buffalo River (near the headwater) and continue towards Edwards Junction.
Once at the top of the hill we will then begin a westward-ish journey on HWY 21/16. Turning off on HWY 16 at Fallsville we continue west. There is one turn on this road that has caught several riders off guard. When you see the Boston sign heed the
suggested MPH for the turn. It is a double apex with decreasing radius. We will meet HWY 23 once again just north of St. Paul and turn to the north on our way through Huntsville and back to HWY 12/127 where we will turn west and head home.
This route will be lead by Bill Van Evera. The ride is limited to 7 riders. Sign up at the event. route table.
🥾🏍️ SURPRISE BIKE & HIKE RIDE! 🏍️🥾
Ready for something a little different? Join us for a surprise ride of less than 200 miles that combines great Ozark roads with an opportunity to stretch your legs and explore on foot.
The destination is part of the adventure, so fill your tank, pack some water, and bring a comfortable pair of hiking shoes. You’ll enjoy scenic riding, a fun hike, and plenty of camaraderie along the way.
Space is limited to only seven riders, so don’t wait to claim your spot!
For route details and availability, contact Bill Van Evera at 479-551-4801.
Two wheels. Two feet. One great Ozark adventure!
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