Little Rock is both the largest city in Arkansas and the state capital. Due to its location, it an excellent base for your Arkansas vacation. The mixed Little Rock attractions help to keep visitors busy when they're not out exploring the general area. These attractions include the oldest capital building west of the Mississippi river and the Clinton presidential center and park. Regardless of which month you have in mind when making your little rock travel plans, there will be plenty of great attractions that await you once you arrive. There are a number of interesting historical sites and museums in Arkansas, and Little Rock boasts some good ones of its own. The Arkansas state capitol is one of the most popular historic Little Rock attractions that you can enjoy. The historic Arkansas museum is a great place to learn about the city's frontier days, and you can gain insight into the more recent history of Arkansas on the whole at the old state house museum.

Shoppers can spend hours at the river market, a collection of tasty eateries and assorted stores. In Little Rock, families can combine entertainment with educational activities at the same time. Its museums promote an interactive and hands-on experience enabling a more brilliant learning while having fun. The museum of discovery houses scientific and technological exhibits including projects that the kids can work on. Some of its permanent exhibits include energy, world of the forest, and passport to the world, Arkansas indians and bug zoo.

The museum of discovery combined with the children's museum of Arkansas to provide educational services to children and adults of all ages. The 44,000-square-foot educational institution provides unique learning opportunities through its interactive exhibits, programs and events.

The Arkansas art museum is an art museum that houses the children's theater and a museum school. Kids will love the plays that are annually staged by the professional theater company; they include adaptations of the most popular children's stories. Little Rock has been known as the base city for president Clinton. A first time visitor will surely be interested in the sites that have given this city its political and historical fame and other sites that have created its identity in the last 200 years. On the Arkansas river, visit the USS razorback, famous for being in Tokyo bay when the japanese signed the surrender documents ending world war II. Leisurely walk along the river market district, the hub for shopping, dining, art viewing and the most vibrant life in Little Rock.

Little Rock has a wide variety of shopping to please every taste, from the simple quick and easy shopping. Little Rock has malls such as the park plaza mall and there's Little Rock's sister city North Little Rock's Mccain mall. Mccain mall is a 2-level mall anchored by Dillard's, Jcpenney, MM Cohn and Sears. Antique shops are plentiful in Little Rock as well as the entire state.
Little Rock has many restaurants, with a variety of cuisine that make Little Rock a competitor among cities that are known for their great food. Jasmine's is a mixture between Chinese, Japanese & European. Their menu features sushi and some of the best asian dishes I've had in Little rock. Arkansas - Cotham's restaurants have a long and distinguished history in Arkansas. It has served as a general mercantile store in the scott area for area farmers and plantation owners since it's beginning. Cotham's has now become an institution in Arkansas, whose reputation for outstanding food has gained national recognition, whose trademark hubcap hamburgers and onion rings have won many Arkansas times readers awards as the best in the state. So when you come here, bring your memories and your appetite.