Conway: Three Colleges, One Small City
Conway earned the title "City of Colleges" because three institutions sit within its borders: the University of Central Arkansas, Hendrix College, and Central Baptist College. For a city of about 65,000 people, that concentration of higher education is unusual and gives Conway a younger demographic skew than most Arkansas communities outside the NW corridor. UCA alone enrolls around 10,000 students and is the state's third-largest public university.
Located in Faulkner County along the I-40 corridor about 30 miles northwest of Little Rock, Conway has grown consistently as a bedroom community for the capital while developing its own economic base. Snap-on Tools operates a manufacturing plant here, and Hewlett-Packard maintained a facility for years before consolidating elsewhere. The Hendrix Village development near the college campus attempted to create a walkable mixed-use district, an uncommon concept for central Arkansas.
Cadron Settlement Park preserves the site of a pre-statehood community along Cadron Creek where it enters the Arkansas River. The Toad Suck Ferry, which operated nearby from the early 1800s until a bridge replaced it, gave its name to the annual Toad Suck Daze festival, which has run since 1982 and draws tens of thousands of visitors. Lake Conway, the largest Game and Fish Commission lake in the state, borders the city to the southeast.
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Conway earned the title "City of Colleges" because three institutions sit within its borders: the University of Central Arkansas, Hendrix College, and Central Baptist College. For a city of about 65,000 people, that concentration of higher education is unusual and gives Conway a younger demographic skew than most Arkansas communities outside the NW corridor. UCA alone enrolls around 10,000 students and is the state's third-largest public university.
Located in Faulkner County along the I-40 corridor about 30 miles northwest of Little Rock, Conway has grown consistently as a bedroom community for the capital while developing its own economic base. Snap-on Tools operates a manufacturing plant here, and Hewlett-Packard maintained a facility for years before consolidating elsewhere. The Hendrix Village development near the college campus attempted to create a walkable mixed-use district, an uncommon concept for central Arkansas.
Cadron Settlement Park preserves the site of a pre-statehood community along Cadron Creek where it enters the Arkansas River. The Toad Suck Ferry, which operated nearby from the early 1800s until a bridge replaced it, gave its name to the annual Toad Suck Daze festival, which has run since 1982 and draws tens of thousands of visitors. Lake Conway, the largest Game and Fish Commission lake in the state, borders the city to the southeast.
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