Arkansas Highway 25
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Highway 25 is a diagonal northeast-southwest highway in central and northeastern Arkansas between Conway, Arkansas (junction U.S. Highway 64) and Black Rock, Arkansas (junctions U.S. Highway 63, U.S. Highway 412, and Highway 166). Near Conway it is strictly a local route not significant enough to have access to Interstate 40; the segment between Conway and Wooster is a former route of U.S. 65. After meeting U.S. 65 at Greenbrier, it then takes a course past Heber Springs and Batesville through the foothills of the Ozarks.
Except where it coincides with U.S. 65 at Greenbrier and U.S. Highway 167 at Batesville (both undivided four-lane segments) and certain passing lanes (mostly between Greenbrier and Heber Springs), it is entirely a two-lane highway. This hilly, curvy road is scenic in places, but it is not recommended for those pressed for time; however, it is useful for those seeking the towns and recreational areas along it, mainly in the Greers Ferry Lake area. A more direct (if bland) alternative for traveling between Conway and the Walnut Ridge-Hoxie area, just east of Black Rock, would be U.S. 64 and U.S. Highway 67 (most of which is a freeway).
Before 1982 it included an east-west highway between U.S. Highway 63 approximately 2 miles southeast of Portia, Arkansas and the Missouri State Line, where it continued as Route 25. In 1982 this road was redesignated as the anomalous U.S. Highway 412. Major towns along this road include Walnut Ridge and Paragould. This flat, largely straight section through cotton country was in no way scenic, except perhaps where it passed thru Crowley's Ridge west of Paragould. Its eastern terminus was then the Missouri state line at the St. Francis River, where it continued as Route 25 toward Kennett, Missouri.
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