Airports - Motels - Directions
ARKANSAS AIRPORTS
FORT SMITH - served by American Eagle via Dallas and Northwest via Memphis. 90.92 miles.
LITTLE ROCK - served by most major airlines, including Southwest Airlines. 159.82 miles.
TEXARKANA - served by Delta, and American Eagle 104.66 miles.
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS REGIONAL, Fayetteville - served by American, Continental, and Delta. 168.12 miles.
MENA also has a private airfield for private planes.
MENA MOTELS Phone for current rates. All three are located on Hwy 71.
SUN COUNTRY INN - Tel: (toll free) 1 - 877 - 394-7477: (local) 1 - 479-394-7477 Restaurant nearby.
LIME TREE/BEST WESTERN - Tel: (toll free) 1 - 800 - 536-4366: (local) 479-394-6350 Restaurant inhouse. Sr. Citizen 10% discount (AARP)
EXECUTIVE INN: - Tel: 479-394-3710. Restaurant next door at Lime Tree.
Other recreational type lodging may be found here: LODGING Two places of interest are: Carriage House Inn, a B&B and home of Dorothy Shaver, the first female president of Lord & Taylor. Willowbrook Cottage. A very charming and private English style cottage, now rented by the day. Birthplace of Tyrone Lewis, landscape artist and husband of breeder & friend, Barbara Lewis.
To Mena You will enter Mena on Hwy 71 from the north or south. Hwy 71 runs straight from Ft. Smith to Mena to DeQueen. Hwy 88 or Hwy 8 will bring you to Mena from the east or west. If you are coming from Little Rock, go straight through Hot Springs to Pencil Bluff, where you will turn left on Hwy 88 into Mena. Coming from Texas, take interstate 30 to New Boston, TX where you will get off on TX- 8N ramp to DeQueen, AR. 8N becomes AR-41. AR-41 becomes US-71/ US-59. You will go straight through DeQueen and into Mena. All the motels are on Hwy 71. The distance from New Boston to Mena is 92.90 miles.
