Please Contact us prior to scheduling events at Chaffee Crossing
Lorie Robertson lorie@chaffeecrossing.com
Jill Bullard jill@chaffeecrossing.com
(479) 452-4554
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE FCRA STAFF!
Thursday, January 24, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Click here for the Nature Center's event schedule.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Monday, February 18, 2019
Click here for the Nature Center's event schedule.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Chaffee Crossing Historic District
7321 Terry St., Fort Smith
Thursday, March 21, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Chaffee Barbershop Museum - 7313 Terry St., Fort Smith
Celebrate the 61st anniversary of Elvis Presley's famous G.I. buzzcut in the Chaffee Barbershop Museum.
FREE buzz cuts 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Museums open 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 30, 2019
5:00 p.m.
Chaffee Crossing Historic District
Every Monday and Thursday
6:00 p.m.
WAR Building, 7308 Ellis Street
https://runsignup.com/Race/AR/FortSmith/2015WomenRunArkansasTrainingClinicFortSmith
Saturday, March 23
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Off Hwy 22
Visit the Facebook page for more details.
Click here for the Nature Center's event schedule.
January-April 2019 Program brochure
Hosted by River Valley Skin Cancer Alliance
Sunday, April 21, 2019
7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Chaffee Crossing Historic District
Start at the W.A.R. building, 7703 Ellis St., Fort Smith
This event will be a 5k run, followed by a 12-mile bike ride, ending with a 5k run.
For more information, contact Kerrie Taber, 512.751.2527 or kerriemtaber@sbcglobal.net
Thursday, April 18, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Friday, April 19, 2019
Hosted by Barling Elementary PTA
TBD
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Chaffee Crossing Historic District
Start/Finish at corner of Darby Ave. and Ellis St. (by Marine Corps League building)
Register online: Click here
Every Monday and Thursday
6:00 p.m.
WAR Building, 7308 Ellis Street
TBD
Hwy 22 and Mahogany at Chaffee Crossing
Saturday, April 27
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Gates open at 7:00 a.m.; Event starts at 9:00 a.m.
Chaffee Crossing off Hwy 22
Get details on the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page.
Click here for the Nature Center's event schedule.
Every Monday and Thursday
6:00 p.m.
WAR Building, 7308 Ellis Street
Click here for the Facebook page.
5K Run and Memory Walk
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Starting Time: 7:45 a.m.
Event starting point: Janet Huckabee Nature Center
Chaffee Crossing, Fort Smith, AR
Register at Orr Nissan Fort Smith or REGISTER ONLINE
Visit the Facebook event page or runforlei@yahoo.com
Saturday, May 4, 2019
8 am to 3 pm
Hwy. 22 at Mahogany
Find details on their website or their Facebook page.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Chaffee Crossing Historic District, Fort Smith
Proceeds benefit the HOPE Humane Society
Find details on their website or their Facebook page.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Saturday, May 18, 2019
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Chaffee Crossing Historic District
7313 Terry St., Fort Smith
Live band, food trucks, and 100+ craft beers to sample!
Get more info on the Facebook page. Purchase Tickets at Grow Fresh Organics
Monday, May 27, 2019
TBD
7208 Mahogany Ave., Fort Smith, AR
Saturday, May 25
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Off Hwy 22
Get details on the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page.
Click here to access the Nature Center's public events calendar.
TBD
Starts at 7:00 a.m.
Corner of Mahogany and Hwy 22, Chaffee Crossing
https://www.vvachapter467.org/contact-us/
TBD
7:30 a.m.
Next Step Homeless Services
Chaffee Crossing Historic District
7313 Terry St., Fort Smith
Saturday, June 22
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Off Hwy 22
Get more details on the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Chaffee Crossing Historic District, 7313 Terry St., Fort Smith
Cycling rides include 10-, 30-, 45- and 100-mile routes. 5k run/walk starts and ends in the Historic District by the Chaffee Barbershop Museum.
Register online: http://www.truegritride.com/
Click here to access the Nature Center's public events calendar.
Thursday, July 4, 2019
TBD
Saturday, July 27
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Off Hwy 22
Visit the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page for more details.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Click here to access the Nature Center's public events calendar.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Saturday, August 24
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Mahogany Ave. off Hwy 22
Visit the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page for more details.
Click here to access the Nature Center's public events calendar.
Monday, September 2, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Saturday, September 21
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Mahogany Ave. off Hwy 22
Visit the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page for more details.
Click here to access the Nature Center's public event calendar.
TBD
3:00 p.m.
Highland Crossing at Chaffee Crossing, 9429 Harmony Ridge Rd., Fort Smith, AR
Saturday, October 5, 2019
8 am to 3 pm
Hwy. 22 at Mahogany, Barling
Find details on their website or their Facebook page.
Saturday, October 5, 2019
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chaffee Crossing, Off Hwy 22
7300 Gardener Ave., Fort Smith
Vendor booths, food and speakers.
For more information, visit the Facebook page or contact Susan Randolph, 479.462.1713, susanrandolphark@gmail.com
TBD
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Event starting point: McClure Drive, ArcBest parking lot
Thursday, October 17, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Saturday, October 26
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chaffee Crossing, Mahogany Ave. off Hwy 22
Visit the Reaction Motorsports Events Facebook page for more details.
TBD
4:00 pm-- 6:00 pm
7030 Taylor Ave. next to the FCRA office
Bounce Arounds * Halloween Costume Contest * Carnival Games
Visit their Facebook page for more information
Click here to access the Nature Center's public event calendar.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Noon
Chaffee Crossing Historic District, 7313 Terry St., Fort Smith
For more information: parade@chaffeecrossing.com
Thursday, November 21, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Thursday and Friday, November 28 & 29, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Chaffee Crossing Historic District - starting at the W.A.R. building, 7308 Ellis St., Fort Smith
Register Here
Click here to access the Nature Center's public event calendar.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
3:30 p.m.
FCRA office
7020 Taylor Ave., Fort Smith
Tuesday and Wednesday, December 24 & 25, 2019
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Chaffee Crossing-based Arkansas Colleges of Health Education president Kyle Parker gave some insight into the future developments planned for the campus. They include asking locals to help medical students fall in love with the community so they will stay and practice in the region after graduation.
In a Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority board meeting on January 9, 2019, executive director Mat Pitsch told the board the I-49 project is not dead even though a letter from ARDOT director Scott Bennett reports that the HNTB study determined tolling would not support the cost of constructing 13.5 miles of interstate and a new bridge across the Arkansas River between Chaffee Crossing and Alma, Arkansas.
"Looking at bigger projects, Pitsch told the board that ARDOT Director Scott Bennett had a study done on the feasibility of a bridge and a roughly 13-mile section of I-49 north of Fort Chaffee that would connect Highway 22 in Sebastian County and the I-40/I-49 interchange in Crawford County to be a toll system. The timing for that section of the interstate would have to be started within the next five years," he said.
“No one wanted to commit to a 13-mile section, but by doing it the way he did, he could see who might be interested in a toll contract on the highway without having to commit to starting the entire project,” Pitsch said. “It was a very smart way to do it. We don’t know if any of the (interstate) will be toll, but by using funds for the study, it was a commitment that construction on that section would have to be started within five years.”
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education announced plans to develop a healing garden and wellness park on their campus.
Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority
7020 Taylor Avenue
Fort Smith, AR 72916
(479) 452-4554