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Arkansas is blessed with many beautiful waterfalls, and exploring them is a great way to get the blood flowing when it’ s time for a break from riding.
enjoying the view.
Mount Magazine sits in the middle of Route 309, between Paris and Havana. Didn’ t know you could ride a motorcycle from Paris to Havana, did you? The 10 miles from the park south to Havana is more akin to an amusement park roller coaster, twisting its way through tunnels of dense hardwood forest. The ride is switchback after switchback, supplemented with tight curves and turns by the dozens. Unlike the Dragon, which is relatively level, Route 309 has a tremendous 2,300-foot elevation change. Now that’ s exciting; I often turn around and ride it again.
After running Route 309 a couple of times, I finally continued east out of Havana on a rather bland stretch of State Route 10, through the Petit Jean River Valley. At Danville I took State Route 27 south, wending up into the Ouachita Mountains. My destination was Mena, Arkansas, and there are several routes I could take. But I wanted to make a special stop along the way, at a museum that harkens back to a time before television when radio ruled the