Talimena National Scenic Byway! 

It's so pretty there!

Awesome video

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Looks like a patch work quilt

Thank you for sharing your drive.

When I was attending Mena High School, spray painting on Graffiti Rock was unofficially encouraged, like at the Cadillac Ranch in Texas.

What a beautiful scenery and mountains

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Beautiful

Small trivia. Back in either the 70s or 80s, the old steam locomotive used to have a small sign by the large drive wheels that it would take 80,000 years for them to rust away.

Beautiful scenery

That was AWESOME!

Nice video

Thank you for sharing beautiful views and colorful leaves. Wonderful trails in Arkansas. Pioneer Cemetery has pretty colors of flowers.😊💖 Great cemetery. It's a cool place and excited to visit. I enjoyed it. Thank you.

Hopefully that ate there at The Lodge...... Results very for some folks ...tomato tamahto ...but always was good for us in the past.... spent my honeymoon there in the Queen Wilhelmina Suite the first night, then onto Branson B&B we had a great Honeymoon there and in Branson!

Great fall colors. We lived in Oklahoma for 2 years. It gets really windy there too.

Agree it is very beautiful. The White Mountains of New Hampshire are colorful too. Thanks for posting, (from Texas) ~ R&B

The leaves on the bushes at the pioneer cem. are possibly paw paw,s

Shenandoah scenic drive is very beautiful as well, VA is amazing in the Fall TY

At the state line in the pull off there is a old stone marker on the state line. People will take photo by that stone marker as well as the one on the highway . Very cool hwy awesome views always enjoyed that part of Oklahoma. I haven't been in a few years now. Awesome video

That is a really pretty area, even when the leaves are not changing. Great video Rhetty!! Mena Arkansas....a drug smugglers paradise!! Hi to Sarah!

Yes

So beautiful. If you ever make it to California , please go north from Santa Barbara on HWY 1. It is breathtaking.

Beautiful views. Around here the trees pretty much go from green to brown, with the occasional splash of red. It's amazing to see all the different colors. A lot of nice finds you stumbled on for that trip. That little train was pretty cool, and the view was definitely prettier on the way back with that blue sky.

That place is beautiful. We rode through there in the fall several years ago with Jeep top down. Saw a few bears. I grew up in West Virginia and that ride made me feel like I was back home again. Country Roads Take Me Home. 😎

Hi RhettyforFun. I hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend. As always, I am happy to see your videos.

Rhetty,Love your channel consider me hooked.I also grew up going to all the places that you document.Your doing a really great job.Very fascinating stuff.You have a really natural way speaking about the places that you go to.

I lived in Mena for a few years growing up it's a beautiful place. What month did you go there? I have a trip scheduled for the 2nd weekend in November and can't remember when the best time to see color was. Hopefully we will still see some color.

Rhetty, thank you for allowing us to come along on your drive through Talimena Scenic Trail. The scenery is beautiful and I enjoyed your commentary which was very relaxing to listen to and didn't distract from the views you were driving along. This year has been particularly colourful in Autumn, perhaps because the Summer months were spectacularly warm here in Ireland.

It's always great to see someone else's part of the world, I LOVE the bitty train! tyvm! I wish I could send you a video of my region which is famous for being the largest sand island in the World .. Fraser Island, Australia. Hugs from this side of the globe!

Beautiful drive !! I try to do it at least once every year, and I assure you that you’ll see something new every time you make the drive 😊😊

Beautiful trees and scenery. It did look a lot like Virginia or New England. Driving home on the second day was especially pretty with the blue skies and sun. We don't get anything like that in So. Cal. I was most impresses with your audio, though. All that wind and not a moment of wind noise in your camera :-)

When the world starts getting too crazy, just take a gander at those breathtaking views! It looks like your road trip was a blast, thanks for letting us tag along! Take care and stay warm :)

There are some Viking markings down there. A vault where a Viking is supposedly buried. You have to walk about 7 miles to get there.

still catching up on ur catalogue super impressive! living through two kids in a red sports car great she driving while u film when u n Sarah are walking along the leaf covered path and all those oaks looking like they have faces wonder in all y'alls adventures ever been to mother neff state park south of west and west side of 35 near waco Texas lots of oak n pecan there and this video really near a twin in spirit...many thanks for another interesting video

Am I the only one who saw the face in the squatty Oak Tree?

I'm glad that people are looking after the cemetery 💦💦

I'm excited to take this drive tomorrow from Dallas to hot springs

The roads on the Oklahoma side sure are fun! No good roads to enjoy near Fort Worth, Went up for 2 days during December and only saw 10 cars/motorcycles. Awesome scenery!

Mena also has many events each year that include rally on the mountain. Also a lodge on the mountain recently refurbished recently. Mena is a sweet little town that survives on tourist dollars.

The leaf is from a Paw Paw tree which has the largest edible fruit of any tree in N America

that person by the upside down stone, is buried upside down

That Green Stuff on those tree is Pete Moss

This is going to sound so lame but here goes: this is really, really great but, it makes me so sad to see some mountains and changing leaves. I’m sad and just want to bawl. Moving from the Pacific Northwest to Dallas/Fort Worth has been hard. No matter how long I live here I still miss fall and amazing mountains. Ty again for doing this video as usual well done! 👏🏻😊

Yes Rhetty, I agree with you on the trip; it's a better trip from Mena, AR to Talihina, OK on the Talimena drive. FYI - I heard on the news this evening where Leon Russell's Monument was unveiled today at Memorial Park Cemetery here in Tulsa. I haven't gone to see it yet and if I heard correctly, it is a big monument and cost around $42,000. The news media here showed the monument and it's black granite and looked big on the news video. I did see a photo of the monument on the tulsa world website and it's looking like a big monument too. When you are ready to come for a visit, let me know ahead of time and I'll meet you at the cemetery and visit. Have a good evening, buddy.

JUST LITTLE TASTE OF GOD'S GLORY !

'Fallen' women and suicides are a couple of reasons that certain burials were not allowed in consecrated ground. You would see their graves just outside the boundaries of a cemetery as in your video, just outside of the fence. An interesting little mystery for this pioneer cemetery.

I absolutely LOVE that part of the state. My favorite place though is Natural Falls State Park. Have you guys been there yet?

Great video, However I noticed you missed a favorite stop, that being the Rich Mountain Tower. Situated between Queen Wilmena State Park and the town of Mena, Ar. Great video!

I drove it about a month ago, Dec of 18. An ice storm came through the day before and coated the trees but the road surface was clear, it was great but I had it to myself for most of the drive.

I'm glad you found the historical cemetery on the drive. I know you found one grave outside of the fenced area. There are actually more. Mainly very old graves of children. If you read the markers it becomes apparent that some kind of plague swept through the area killing a lot of children. There is also graves of children from one family that was killed in a fire. If I remember right the family lost 4 kids. They is lots of tragedy in that little cemetery. I don't know why the fence area doesn't include the entire cemetery.

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Is it just me....or is that oak tree smiling?

You should come down any other time. I live 1 mile from the drive and I can sit at one of the Vista's and not see any vehicles for a couple hours.

A great family day out your children will love it with all the things to do 💦💦

Rhetty, I 've been enjoying all your videos so far and am learning some info that I never knew before. I appreciate you coming to Arkansas when you can. We have a very nice state with lot's to see. I wanted to encourage you to visit the Lum & Abner museum just little farther down the road east from Mena the next time you're in that part of the state. It's small little museum that you might find fun and interesting. I've included a link to where it is located. Keep up the good work. www.lum-abner.com/