The Community:
Forrest City, AR is a great place to work, play, and call home. Forrest City offers a low cost of living along with an easy, relaxing pace of life in a friendly community while still having the convenience of east access to the larger cities of Memphis, TN and Little Rock, AR with fine dining, world-class entertainment, Opera, Symphony, Live Theater, museums and the famous Memphis Zoo.
If you enjoy the outdoors, we’ll show you the comfortable cabins, sylvan campsites, and beautiful trails of Arkansas’ largest state park, with fascinating geological formations known as Crowley’s Ridge, a natural treasure of flora unique to this part of the state. Forrest City offers excellent state and national wildlife management areas, two beautiful country clubs with golf courses, a Municipal Sports Complex with multiple fields, and a sporting clays range nearby to challenge your marksmanship skills.
Forrest City area schools receive top priority from the community. All schools are fully recognized by the Arkansas Dept. of Education and all offer Gifted and Talented programs. On the elementary level, the district is one of only two in the state to offer a program of parent choice through a magnet school system.