A Southeast Arkansas bucket list of things everyone from Southeast Arkansas should do at least once.

Rex Nelson published a “Natural State Bucket List” of things every Arkansan should do at least once. While he included a few things from Southeast Arkansas it was certainly not exclusive to our neck of the woods.

So, here is a Southeast Arkansas Bucket List of things unique to Southeast Arkansas:

• Hike (and try not to get lost) at Seven Devils.

• Kayak in the moonlight at Cane Creek in Star City.

• Eat one of Rhoda’s Famous Hot Tamales.

• Run (or walk) in the Mississippi River Marathon over the Mississippi River Bridge.

• Catch a trophy bass at Pendleton in Dumas.

• Watch a rodeo at Crossett.

• Slide down the levee on cardboard at Arkansas City.

• Watch the sun rise from a duck blind on a cold winter morning at Cut Off.

• Visit the World War II Japanese-American Internment Museum at McGehee.

• Visit Lake Village where Charles Lindbergh took his first night flight.

• Watch politicians gorge themselves on tomatoes in the tomato eating contest at the Pink Tomato Festival in Warren.

• Watch the wintering bald eagles at Cane Creek in Star City.

• Eat catfish and watermelon while listening to the Cummins Prison Band in a pecan grove at the Grady Fish Fry.

• Hike the trails at Choctaw Island in Arkansas City.

• Attend a “history talk” at the Lakeport Plantation at Lake Village.

• Watch snow geese take flight from a bean field in the Delta.

• Go birding at Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge.

• Watch the Little Red Wagon Parade at Christmastime in Hamburg.

• Sit under a Magnolia tree, listen to the blues and watch the fireworks over Lake Chicot on Independence Day.

• Dive into Weevil Pond at UAM in February and raise money for Special Olympics at the annual Special Olympics Polar Plunge.

• Visit the Japanese-American relocation centers at Rowher and Jerome.

• Watch the sun set behind the sharecropper shack during cotton harvest season at Pickens.

• Tour the Allen House in Monticello.

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