About Mountain Home
Area Recreation
Where Is Mountain Home,
Arkansas?
Looking at a map showing Arkansas and
Missouri, you'll find Mountain Home, Arkansas in the northern center of Arkansas just
below the Missouri - Arkansas border. The two lakes, the three rivers, and the Ozark
National Forest, all in our area, offer some of the best outdoor recreation opportunities
in America.
Norfork Lake is five miles to the east
of Mountain Home, and Bull Shoals Lake is nine miles west of Mountain Home. The White
River and North Fork River (also called the Norfork River) are both ten miles southeast of
Mountain Home. Access to the lower or middle sections of the Buffalo National River are
about 30 miles southwest of Mountain Home.The Sylamore District of the Ozark
National Forest is 20 miles to the south.
Where is The Twin Lakes Area?
It is that region within the north-central Arkansas and
south-central Missouri Ozark Mountains encompassing a 30 mile radius around Mountain Home,
Arkansas. Norfork Lake and Bull Shoals Lake spread throughout the area, thus the name Twin
Lakes Area. Mountain Home is almost dead center between the two lakes. The waters of both
lakes extend into southern Missouri. There are several small towns within this region,
like Bull Shoals, Arkansas. Total population within the Twin Lakes Area is about 50,000
persons.
Mountain Home - Center of the
Twin Lakes Area
Mountain Home Arkansas has the Twin Lakes Area's largest population (about 11,000),
and has many restaurants, churches, shopping, parks, medical facilities, a college campus,
two 18 hole golf courses, and a long list of service sector amenities. Highway 62/412,
which is the major east-west highway crossing northern Arkansas, runs through Mountain
Home.
Why Do People Vacation in the
Ozark Mountains?
Each year some 800,000 to 1 million people visit the Twin Lakes Area to enjoy a
wide range of outdoor recreation pursuits. Because there are so many attractive locations
for participating in outdoor recreation, few areas are ever crowded. Most people
vacationing here enjoy the small town atmosphere, the lack of crime, the friendly locals,
and the uncrowded clean clear rivers, lakes, and forests.
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