Pulaski County is the most populous in Arkansas, with a total population of almost 400,000. Most of that is at Little Rock, the largest city in the state and its capital.
Nearly half of Arkansas's population lives in the city, in the center of the state, at the bank of the Arkansas River.
And the hub of the city is the River Market. That is the place to go if you want to do some shopping, have a nice beer, enjoy the city’s nightlife, find museums, Little Rock’s main library and, of course, good hotels to stay in. There are options for everyone.
But the capital city’s name is not for nothing. It is because, as you can imagine, of a little rock.
The story comes back to the time when Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, who travelled those sites for years, noted a landmark that he called the “French Rock”, which is now called the “Big Rock”. He has also found a smaller rock, that he baptized as “La Petite Roche”, which in english means “the little rock”, and it is where the state's capital is located until today.
The city has lots of parks, from the Clinton Presidential Park Wetlands to the La Petite Roche Plaza, that surround the little rock after which the city was named.
If you like history and arts, you can take a look at the long list of museum: Arkansas Arts Center, Purse Museum, the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Historic Arkansas Museum, Old State House Museum, Mount Holly Cemetery and MacArthur Museum of Military History, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, EMOBA or the Central High School Museum.
The city hosts the Cheese Dip Festival, where you can find good cheese, and the Jazz in the Park, where you can find some good jazz music to maybe post on Instagram.