Monkey Run, Arkansas

Monkey Run is an unincorporated community in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. The community is on Arkansas [Highway 126] approximately 1.5 mile south of the Ozark Regional Airport and 4.5 miles west of Mountain Home via Arkansas Highway 178.

History

The community's heyday was 1900 to the Great Depression. Seven different zinc mines operated around Monkey Run, with ore shipped by wagon to Cotter, Arkansas. The community was originally named Pilgrim's Rest, but was renamed by a storekeeper who watched a group of boys playing tag and exclaimed, "watch them monkeys run". A later attempt by a vegetable canning plant to change the name to Pleasant Valley never took hold.