Bicycle Touring Guide to Scenic Highway 7

A section map of the Scenic Higway 7 route with topographic contours, elevation chart, shoulder and average traffic count.

Over a period of years, I researched a bicycle touring map of Scenic Highway 7 in Arkansas and produced a booklet that provides information on campgrounds, hotels, restaurants, groceries, bicycle shops, visitor centers and cultural amenities for someone who wants to travel the 300-mile-long highway by bicycle. The guide also gives distances between points and recommended alternates to Highway 7, especially in cities where a quiet residential street might be preferred to the traffic-heavy highway.

Its design — with the direction of north at the left rather than above — is a convention of bicycle maps, which aim to get as much run of the route across a map that is usually fitted into a horizontal sleeve specific to touring bicycles.

Along with the map, the guide includes an elevation chart, estimate of shoulder width, and Arkansas statistics on daily average number of vehicles, shown below.


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