National Public Lands Day is Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016.
To help celebrate, the National Park Service has waived entrance fees for the day to provide an opportunity for visitors to connect with history, the outdoors and National Parks. Pea Ridge National Military Park will have a local group of living historians at the Elkhorn Tavern to talk with visitors and the park artillery crew will provide artillery demonstrations at the visitor center. Artillery demonstrations will occur at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. For information please call the park at 479-451-8122 ext. 1227 or visit us at www.nps.gov/peri.
Pea Ridge National Military Park preserves the site of and commemorates the March 1862 Civil War battle that helped Union forces maintain control of Missouri. The park is located six miles east of Pea Ridge on U.S. Highway 62.
Sports on 09/21/2016