The next leg of our trip east on U.S. Highway 412 across north Arkansas takes us through Lawrence County from Portia to Walnut Ridge.

We leave Hardy and head east along the Spring River as our U.S. Highway 412 adventure continues.

We roll through Highland, Cherokee Village and Hardy as we continue east on U.S. Highway 412. The three communities are connected.

We start this stretch of our trip on U.S. Highway 412 at Cotter and end at Ash Flat. This is river country — the White, the North Fork, the Spring.

The trip along U.S. Highway 412 across north Arkansas continues as we drive east from Harrison on Crooked Creek to Cotter on the White River.

On the next leg of our trip along U.S. Highway 412, we make it from Huntsville to Harrison.

We leave Siloam Springs and head east through Tontitown and Springdale. We soon find ourselves in Madison County.

The goal: Take U.S. Highway 412 all the way across north Arkansas from Oklahoma to the Missouri Bootheel. We start in the parking lot of the Cherokee Casino just west of Siloam Springs.