Riding the Rails through the Ozark Mountains

Welcome back to Wayward Stories! This week, we explore my recent opportunity to ride a passenger excursion train on a 150-mile round trip through the gorgeous Boston Mountains of Northwest Arkansas. It’s a full day ride featuring trestles that tower 125 feet about the valley floor, a 1702’ long tunnel on the highest railway pass between the Apps and the Rockies, and follows along Frog Bayou for the majority of the trip, one of our crystal clear Ozark Mountain creeks!  

If there’s anything that captures that free-roaming spirit vibe and rekindles the nomad within us, it’s gotta be riding the rails. Given the current state of affairs in the world, it has me seriously considering becoming a hobo…

 

oh and also I maybe divulge some possibly incriminating stories from my youth involving trains 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

Tune in this week to come along for the ride!

 

Thanks for listening!