Hi Charles! In the present day (and to my personal knowledge for the last forty years or so), Arkansas Highway 16 which heads southeastward from Fayetteville, Arkansas in the northwest corner of the state to its junction with Arkansas Highway 23 and thence south to Ozark on the Arkansas River is regionally known as the "Pig Trail." About ten years ago, they even put rather nice carved wood signs so identifying the route. It has been used, despite its extremely narrow, winding, tree covered nature through some of the most roughest terrain in the state, as a shorter route from Fayetteville to the Arkansas River valley and central Arkansas - particularly on weekends when the Razorbacks played in Fayetteville. Stretches of it have appeared in several automobile commercials. --- Robert W. King I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver! SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959 BellNet: 501-634-2086 InterNet: [email protected] http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/i/n/Robert-W-King/index.html [stuff snipped] Grandad John Henry said he came on a or the Pig Trail from Hope to Huckaby , Texas, about 1900with a stove, a pump organ, a trunk, a milk cow, and a dog. I was in Mena arkansas doing contract Discover card work a few days and folk there gave me tourists brochures on THE PIG TRAIL- A PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN TRAIL from Mena , Arkansas down a curved Ouachita Mountain ridge which comes out near the Red River betweeen Fredrick and Broken Bow. Arkansas wagon trains used this route to Texas to avoid Caddo lake and several swamps and rivers. They had a shallow ford or ferry on the Red River, from which you could go to Sulfur Springs or towards Dallas, where crossings for the Trinity and the Brazos were well developped and you were in Erath County, 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth. [more stuff snipped]