Since most of you will be staying in Jonesboro, here are a few tips. Most of the restaurants and shopping are located on Caraway, Stadium, Nettleton and Highland Drives, along with several restaurants located south of U.S. 63 on Parker Road. Fairfield Inn, Hilton Gardens, and the Holiday Inn Express are off of U.S. 63 at the Caraway exit. For the most part, the streets in Jonesboro run a grid pattern, N,S,E,W and is easy to get around. Traffic can be heavy at times, but if your use to Ft. Smith, it shouldn't give you much trouble, except for not being as familiar with where you are going.
Depending on where you are staying in Jonesboro, you may either take Highland Drive out east of Jonesboro, which is State Hwy 18 that goes to Monette or take U.S. 63 to exit 39 (Commerce Drive) then go up to Highland Drive. Commerce Drive is also shown as State Hwy 18. I reccommend the U.S.63/Commerce/18 route because the less you have to drive on Highland, the better. It's like driving on Rogers Ave at rush hour.
Jonesboro will have a lot of the same types of restaurants as Ft. Smith, but I'll recommend some that I liked when I was in Jonesboro, and hopefully they are still as good. For Italian food, Lazzari Italian Oven, 2230 South Caraway Road, is very good. There use to be a wait in the evenings, but I don't know if that's still the case with all of the new places to eat. I mentioned Tamolly's Mexican Restaurant, 2506 East Highland Drive, in my Paragould post. Before I moved to Tucson, I ate at Tamolly's in Jonesboro about everytime I went down there. O'Charley's, 2312 East Parker Road, is a chain that I'm not sure if it's in NWA yet. We ate there several times when it first opened in Jonesboro. There is also a Shorty Smalls, 3000 E Highland Dr # 305, located near the Mall at Turtle Creek. I have not eaten at the location, but I love the Little Rock locations.
The Mall at Turtle Creek is the last indoor mall that has been built in the U.S. I have not been to it since it didn't come along until after I left the area, but by looking at the store directory, it has several nice stores. It even has a Build-A-Bear location.
The following is a list that my friend Myleea recommended for things to do in Jonesboro.
Forrest L. Wood Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center
The Hollywood Malco
Downtown has some nice shops and eating places.
Arkansas State University
If anyone has questions, let me know and I'll see if I can find out the answer for you.
Go County Line!!!
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