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Located in Green County, which is approximately 150 miles northeast of Little Rock and 80 miles northwest of West Memphis, is a little city that offers big fun. You can pick the cozy Paragould bed and breakfast or the Paragould Inn, as your home away from home. After getting rest after your trip, head on down to Crowley's Ridge State Park. With its 30-acre fishing lake (electric motors only), swimming lake, group cabin area with rental kitchen and dining hall, baseball field, standard pavilions, trails, snack bars, and picnic areas, it's no wonder that it is a popular attraction for the locals and visitors. If you want a unique adventure, you can reserve a session and learn how to cook outdoors in a cast iron Dutch oven. There is a $12.00 admission fee, which includes a workshop that will teach you how to care for and cook with your Dutch oven. A meal is also provided. After a fun filled day the park, head down to the Dixie Cafe. It is an Arkansas-based restaurant chain that will feed your craving for some down-home Southern cooking. Satisfy your taste buds with chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried okra, pot roast, black-eyed peas, or any other of their delicious foods. Then wash it all down with a soda fountain beverage of your choice. After another nice night at the B & B, go out and learn a little about the town's early heritage. See the largest mural in Arkansas. The Paragould Mural depicts such places as the Wrape Stave Mill, the Old Depot, and the train that was once used in the area. After a long day of catching up on some history, then head down to a nice restaurant named the Catfish Wharf. Enjoy catfish, seafood, steak, burgers, barbeque, or chicken. Each dish will definitely be appetizing for you. Paragould will definitely has enough things to make a wonderful vacation.
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