RUSH -- One look at the Buffalo River on Friday made my spirit soar. The water, with its cloudy emerald tint, was at an ideal height for paddling a canoe or kayak. That would become evident to the ...

— -- Clark Fletcher, 61, of Mountain Home, Ark., will never forget the first time he saw a canoe on the Buffalo National River. "I was about 10 and was fishing with my brother when we met four ...

The Buffalo was the first national river to be established in America, in 1972. It runs 153 miles through four Arkansas counties. It begins in the historic Boston Mountains regions of the Ozarks and ...