![]() With a cultivation facility cranking out marijuana in Berryville and most competing dispensaries located an hour away in the Fayetteville area, nearby Eureka became an appealing place for Osage Creek to land an operation in Carroll County. ![]() As in: the Osage Creek that’s emblazoned on the side of your medical cannabis packaging. Remember that courtly Best Western that sits at the turn into Eureka’s historic downtown district? Get this: It’s now Osage Creek Lodge. But if you can afford to do so, maybe consider just going with the whole “digital detox” approach?Īdvertisement Stephanie Smittle Heart-shaped tub at Lazee Daze in the Ozarks If you’ve gotta be plugged in, you’ll need to return to the entrance near Lazee Daze’s office to get a signal. Important to note: There’s no Wi-Fi in the cabins and cell service can be spotty. That’s how we got where we are now,” Charles said. ![]() Stephanie Smittle Ouachita Farms package at Lazee DazeĬharles became an advocate of medical marijuana use after seeing cannabis aid his father in a battle with pancreatic cancer, and when medical cannabis was legalized in Arkansas, the pair decided they would “discreetly add a page to the website letting people know. And though proprietors Charles and Robin Mowrey stress that no smoking is allowed indoors, the cabin porches are “420-friendly,” meaning that what medical cannabis patients “responsibly smoke on our porches,” Lazee Daze literature says, “is your own business.” In fact, with some ID verification in advance, you can set up a curated hemp-derived THC edible package to be in your cabin upon your arrival, through a partnership Lazee Daze has with Ouachita Farms. The red cedar cabinetry, native stone fireplaces, covered porches and country decor give some major grandma’s house/“Goldilocks and the Three Bears” vibes, and the properties are peppered throughout lushly green (in spring, anyway) wooded areas and distanced such that visitors don’t see much of their neighbors in nearby cabins - only woods, birds, squirrels and, if you’re as lucky as we were, light rainfalls in the forest. You know that trick that real estate folks and Airbnb hosts do where they show you the most flattering angles of the property hoping to make it look more appealing? Absolutely none of that going on at Lazee Daze, a 63-acre placid log cabin retreat in the hills of scenic Arkansas Highway 23, just outside of town with two-story country cabins and smaller honeymoon/anniversary cabins with giant heart-shaped bathtubs. The Switzerland-esque mountain town is also home to a relaxing 420-friendly cabin resort and some off-the-beaten path delights worth getting high on, detailed here for your summer road trip enjoyment. Now, Eureka’s home to Osage Creek Lodge, a stately former Best Western turned motorcourt hotel with an on-site medical cannabis dispensary - perhaps the only hotel lobby in the state that boasts an earthy (and legal) whiff of marijuana. Vegan and vegetarian options abound on restaurant menus, and your server is approximately 1,457% more likely than in Little Rock to don space buns or be named “Solstice.” I feel if I stayed more than a month or two, I might begin to normalize tie dye in my sartorial life, perhaps even affirming its rightful place in the world of business wear. ![]() Stephanie Smittle Entrance to cabin at Lazee Daze Instead, visitors get more jacuzzis per square mile than surely any other town in Arkansas, a thriving health food store that’s open daily, a boutique hot sauce shop and the time capsule that is Hart’s Family Center grocery, charmingly documented for hundreds of thousands of viewers by a TikTok filmographer under the name PineAcre. Eureka resists a Walmart or an Applebee’s. There’s a sudden proliferation of roadside art galleries, countless dollhouse bed-and-breakfasts, billboards advertising zip line adventures in the Ozarks, a 70-year-old opera company and an old Forestry Service fire tower repurposed for tourists as an observation deck. Highway 62 in Northwest Arkansas, you know that you can’t miss it when the outskirts of Eureka Springs materialize outside your windshield. I f you’ve spent much time careening around the serpentine curves of U.S. ![]()
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