City Parks, Trails & More

Listed here are Bentonville and Bella Vista’s major city parks, municipal trails and activity destinations. For a complete listing, visit bentonvillear.com, bellavistaar.gov and bellavistapoa.com.

Memorial Park

401 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Bentonville

Memorial Park is Bentonville’s premier 73-acre park, home to the Melvin Ford Aquatic Center and a skateboard park. There are tennis, sand volleyball and basketball courts, and fields for softball, baseball, soccer and tee ball. The park has a walking trail, covered pavilion, and a memorial honoring fallen soldiers.

Melvin Ford Aquatic Center

2000 NE Memorial Park Square

Bentonville / (479) 273-9206

Located at Memorial Park, the center features an Olympic-size pool, a water slide, diving boards, and a wading pool with a raindrop fountain. Generally open Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Bella Vista Lake Trail

Cold Cave Rd, Bentonville

This circular fitness trail loops around Bella Vista Lake and is located at the northern tip of Bentonville.

While you’re there, visit the Veterans Wall of Honor, or have a picnic in the covered pavilion.

Lake Bentonville Park

2100 SW I St, Bentonville

Razorback Regional Greenway

nwarpc.org

Trails at Crystal Bridges

600 Museum Way, Bentonville crystalbridges.org / (479) 418-5700

The grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art feature more than more than five miles of trails winding through the museum’s 120-acre wooded site. Designed to spark the imagination, the trails provide access to beautiful Ozark landscapes and outdoor art installations. Many trails are wheelchair and stroller accessible.

Extending from Lake Bella Vista to the southern reaches of Fayetteville, this 37-mile paved cycling and pedestrian trail links dozens of popular destinations, including Downtown Bentonville, arts and entertainment venues, historic sites, parklands, other connecting mountain bike trails, shopping areas and workplaces. The greenway meanders through parks, fields, urban forests and destinations in a primarily off-street setting.

Newly renovated, this 20-acre park has a destination playground, canoeing and paddle boarding, picnic tables, fishing docks, a pavilion and a playground. Fishing is by license.

Slaughter Pen Mountain Bike Park

North of NW A St & East of N Walton Blvd, Bentonville

Featuring more than 20 miles of singletrack, log rides, drops, jumps and a wall ride, this park is designated a Silver Level Ride Center by the International Mountain Bicycling Association. The trails are easy-to-moderate to navigate.

Tanyard Creek Nature Trail

Nature Trail Lane, Bella Vista

This two-part trail features both level walking trails and natural surface trails that stretch through woods, along creeks and past a breathtaking waterfall.

Orchards Park & Trail

1100 NE John DeShields Blvd, Bentonville

Located across from the entrance to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Orchards Park is a premier passive park with walking paths, beautifully landscaped areas, a pavilion, a water feature and an amphitheater.

Back 40 Trails

Bella Vista oztrailsnwa.com bellavistaar.gov/theback40

The Back 40 trails offer 40 miles of natural surface multiuse trails that meander through the east side of the city. Completed in 2016, the Back 40 are recognized as world-class mountain biking trails.

Blowing Springs Walking Trail

948 Blowing Springs Road, Bella Vista

This trail has more than six miles of natural surface for pedestrians and mountain bikers alike at Blowing Springs Park, which features bluff lines, springs and caverns.

Coler Mountain Bike Preserve

11840-11850 Peach Orchard Road

Bentonville / oztrailsnwa.com

Located moments from Downtown Bentonville on 300 acres of Ozarks woodland, Coler Mountain Bike Preserve offers world-class cycling trails with flowy jump lines, technical rocky sections and the “Hub,” a 20-foot-tall, steel-and-wood structure that guides riders to the start of three downhill runs.

Little Sugar Trails

Bella Vista discoverbellavistaar.com / oztrailsnwa.com

Bella Vista’s new Little Sugar Trails boast more than 40 miles of purpose-built trail, excellent for hiking, trail running, bird watching, walking your dog (on a leash) and, of course, mountain biking.

Bella Vista Golf Courses

bellavistapoa.com / (479) 855-5079

Bella Vista’s golf courses are some of the most beautiful and challenging in the central US, with five regulation, 18hole courses, Country Club, Dogwood, Highlands, Kingswood and Scotsdale, and two executive nine-hole courses: Brittany and Berksdale. Driving ranges and retail golf shops are available.