🌲 Where Community Meets Adventure

Invest Local. Showcase the Ozarks. Inspire Adventure.

The Arkansas Ozarks Outdoor Expo was created with a simple but powerful vision: to celebrate the outdoor lifestyle that defines our region while investing in the people, businesses, and communities that call the Ozarks home.

As Mountain Home looks toward the future — including the opportunities presented by a new convention center and expanded event infrastructure — we recognized a unique moment to bring together the region’s growing outdoor recreation economy in one place. The result is an Expo designed to connect, inspire, and elevate everything the Ozarks have to offer.

🧭 What Is the Arkansas Ozarks Outdoor Expo?

The Arkansas Ozarks Outdoor Expo is a family-focused, large-scale outdoor recreation event bringing together:

  • Outdoor brands and manufacturers

  • Local and regional outfitters

  • Conservation and recreation organizations

  • Food vendors, performers, and experience-based exhibitors

  • Athletes, educators, and adventure enthusiasts

The Expo offers hands-on demonstrations, live entertainment, races and rides, interactive experiences, and opportunities to explore everything from camping and fishing to cycling, paddling, hunting, and trail recreation.

More than a trade show, the Expo is a community gathering — a place where people connect with the outdoors, support local industry, and discover new ways to explore the Ozarks.

🌄 Why the Ozarks — Why Now

Since COVID-19, outdoor recreation has experienced unprecedented growth. Families, travelers, and adventurers are choosing experiences over possessions and seeking authentic, nature-based destinations for travel, fitness, and connection.

With its central location, abundance of lakes and rivers, public lands, and four-season recreation, Mountain Home, Arkansas sits at the heart of this movement. Few places offer such a diverse mix of fishing, boating, biking, hiking, hunting, camping, and off-road adventure — all within minutes of town.

The Arkansas Ozarks Outdoor Expo was created to showcase this lifestyle, strengthen regional tourism, and support the local businesses and organizations that make the Ozarks an outdoor destination of choice.

🌟 Our Mission

To invest locally, promote outdoor recreation, and inspire people of all ages to experience the Ozarks through adventure, education, and community engagement.

🌿 Our Commitment

The Arkansas Ozarks Outdoor Expo is committed to:

  • Supporting local and regional businesses

  • Creating accessible, family-friendly experiences

  • Promoting responsible outdoor recreation

  • Strengthening tourism and economic development in Baxter County and beyond

  • Showcasing the Ozarks as a premier outdoor destination

🔥 Join the Movement

Whether you’re a vendor, sponsor, exhibitor, athlete, or outdoor enthusiast, the Arkansas Ozarks Outdoor Expo invites you to be part of something bigger — a celebration of adventure, community, and the incredible landscapes we are fortunate to call home.

Come explore. Get inspired. Experience the Ozarks.

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