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Buckeye Vista Overlook

Athens, Polk County

Photograph of Buckeye Vista Overlook
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

CCC Company 742 built this roadside overlook in 1935: a stone wall 70 feet long and 12 feet tall, made of quarried novaculite and topped with rubblestone, so drivers on Forest Road 38 could pull over and take in the Ouachita view.

Kind of place
Parks and recreation
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When
About 1935
Where
Athens, Polk County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.