Must-see shopping in Arkansas

  • Fayetteville’s Funky Yardsale

    Fayetteville

    The South has more eccentrics than some people may assume, and a shop like Fayetteville’s Funky Yardsale is evidence of these idiosyncratic individuals…

  • Mountain View Music

    Ozark Mountains

    This family-owned and -operated music store is a cornerstone of the Mountain View roots-music scene, and has a fantastic stock of mandolins, banjos,…

  • Tee Rex

    Ozark Mountains

    This neat little shop is full of both toys for kids, and funky gifts for adults, so you'll find everything from vintage action figures to Freddie Mercury…

  • Nightbird Books

    Fayetteville

    In contrast to the lovably messy Dickson St Bookshop, Nightbird is more curated and focused in its selection. It's a lovely, polished independent…

  • River Market District

    Arkansas

    Our favorite shopping stroll in Little Rock in this district, an area of studios, galleries, restaurants and pubs along the riverbank. The Ottenheimer…

  • MOXY Modern Mercantile

    Arkansas

    MOXY is a fun, irrepressibly playful shop that will offer customers vintage clocks, locally handmade jewelry, beard balm, witchcraft guidebooks and…

  • Emma's Museum of Junk

    Jasper

    Emma's has to be one of the most accurately named businesses in the Ozark, for it is, by any standard, a big old house stuffed to the rafters with...well,…

  • Stifft Station Gifts and Sundries

    Arkansas

    We need more stores in this world that add '...and sundries' to the title – it just sounds good. Stifft specializes in Arkansas-made or-themed stuff:…

  • McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers

    Ozark Mountains

    If you've never heard a dulcimer, it sounds like the stringed instrumental version of birdsong on a spring morning. This shop (or 'shoppe') provides some…

  • Dickson St Bookshop

    Fayetteville

    This bookstore really nails that wonderful 'attic with every book you've ever read' vibe. The interior is mad, although there is a method – the endless…

  • Wilson & Wilson Folk Art Co

    Ozark Mountains

    A good dealership to find original, contemporary folk art (that is, art created by those who are not formally trained artists).

  • Fayettechill Basecamp

    Fayetteville

    Fayettechill is a nationally renowned outdoor-clothing retailer that is committed to using sustainable materials (recycled polyester, recycled cotton, etc…

  • Bread And Roses Cooperative

    Arkansas

    This is a worker-owned space that sells healthy groceries and arts and crafts made by local artisans. Besides offering some cool, Arkansas-made gifts,…

  • Bubba's Blues Corner

    Arkansas

    Make like Robert Plant and stop by this wonderfully cluttered shop to pick up a blues record.