Arkansas Highway 107: Enola to Quitman

Take a quiet ride through the rural heart of central Arkansas as we follow Arkansas Highway 107 north from Enola to Quitman. This 15.9-mile drive moves through rolling farmland, wooded hills, and small crossroads scenery, tracing a calm two-lane route between Faulkner County and the southern edge of the Ozark foothills.

We begin near Enola, where Arkansas Highway 107 meets Arkansas Highway 36 in a landscape that still feels closely tied to the countryside around it. Enola sits northeast of Conway, near Highway 36, Highway 107, and Highway 310, and its early history reaches back to the Fredrick’s Lick area near Cadron Creek; local tradition even connects the town’s name to the word “alone” spelled backward. The Enola entry from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas gives the community a sense of place before we ever leave town, reminding us that even small highway junctions often carry long local stories. From here, we settle onto Highway 107 northbound, leaving the tighter crossroads behind for a quieter run through open land, scattered homes, pasture, and timber.

As we move north, the road quickly takes on the rhythm of rural Faulkner County. The highway bends gently rather than dramatically, following the shape of the land through shallow valleys and low ridges. Fields open up beside the pavement, then give way to stretches of roadside woods, ponds, driveways, barns, and small churches. This is not a commercial corridor or a tourist road in the usual sense; it is a working local highway, the kind that connects farms, homes, schools, and neighboring towns without drawing much attention to itself. That quietness is part of the appeal. The scenery changes slowly, with long green views in the growing season and a more textured mix of gold, brown, and muted orange in the fall.

Farther north, the terrain begins to feel slightly more rugged as we approach the Cleburne County line and the foothill country around Quitman. The road remains modest, but the hills become more noticeable, and the wooded areas begin to close in more often along the highway. We are still in central Arkansas, but the drive starts hinting at the Ozarks ahead. Highway 107’s larger route continues beyond this segment toward Heber Springs, and that broader connection helps explain why this small stretch matters: it is part of the rural transition zone between Conway-area farmland, Greers Ferry Lake country, and the hill communities to the north.

Approaching Quitman, Arkansas Highway 107 enters a crossroads town with deeper regional ties than its size might suggest. Quitman developed along important local travel routes, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry for Quitman notes early hopes that nearby springs might help turn the town into a resort-style destination, though that boom never fully materialized. The Cleburne County Historical Society’s Quitman page also points to a once-busy local economy that included merchants, mills, a cotton gin, and other small-town services. Today, that history reads more quietly from the roadside, visible in the town’s grid, older buildings, local businesses, and its role as a junction between Greenbrier, Heber Springs, Greers Ferry Lake, and the rural roads around Enola.

By the time we reach Quitman, the drive has unfolded less like a destination run and more like a portrait of central Arkansas itself. Arkansas Highway 107 gives us a steady look at the farms, woodlots, hills, and small communities that sit between the state’s better-known highways. It is a route defined by movement without hurry, by landscapes that reveal themselves gradually, and by the kind of rural continuity that makes these short state-highway drives worth preserving on video.

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