Arkansas’s list needed heavy correction. Two entries are working installations, one is an operating high school, and one describes a hotel that never existed in Arkansas. What is genuinely abandoned here sits mostly on public land, which makes Arkansas unusually easy to explore legally.
Rush Ghost Town, Marion County
Standing, and legal to visit. Rush is a zinc-mining ghost town inside Buffalo National River, run by the National Park Service: day use, no fee, off Rush Road from AR-14. The buildings are stabilised ruins and you cannot enter them, and the mine adits and shafts are fenced. Removing artifacts breaks federal law. Visitor information.
Monte Ne, Rogers
Standing, but less of it than the photographs suggest. The Oklahoma Row tower in most Monte Ne pictures was taken down by the Army Corps of Engineers from 2023 as a safety threat. Coin Harvey’s tomb and the hotel foundations remain, underwater for much of the year and exposed when Beaver Lake drops. The shoreline is Corps land; the uplands are private. Background.
Dogpatch USA, Marble Falls
Standing, sealed, and not coming back as a theme park. It ran from 17 May 1968 to 14 October 1993. Johnny Morris of Bass Pro Shops bought the 400-acre site in June 2020 for about $1.12 million and is turning it into a private nature preserve, not reviving the rides. It is gated and posted; entering is trespass. What is planned for it.
Majestic Hotel, Hot Springs
Demolished. A fire on 27 February 2014 destroyed the yellow-brick section, the city voted to demolish in June 2016, and the job finished that year. The 5-acre downtown site is still open ground, with the city back in the lead on redevelopment as of July 2026. History of the hotel.
Eaker Air Force Base, Blytheville
Not abandoned. The runways are Arkansas International Airport and the base is a working industrial park. Eaker closed on 15 December 1992 and 3,500 airmen left, but the Ready Alert Facility is now a construction site for the National Cold War Center, aiming at a 2030 opening. The vacant Cold War buildings are leased or city-held; entry is trespass. Base history.
Fort Chaffee, Fort Smith
Also not abandoned. Roughly 64,000 acres are an active Arkansas National Guard training centre, gated, with live-fire ranges and possible unexploded ordnance; trespass there is a federal offence. The 7,000-acre Chaffee Crossing side is ordinary streets and businesses, and the Chaffee Barbershop Museum is open to visitors. Fort Chaffee history.
Two corrections. Little Rock Central High School is a working school and a National Park Service site, not an abandonment, and there is no public access to the interior. And there is no Baker Hotel in Mineral Springs, Arkansas: that story belongs to the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas.
For the full Arkansas list with the date each site was last checked, see Abandoned Places Near Me: Arkansas.