Houston Cofield Supported by Follow the winding roads to Mountain View, Ark., home of the Ozark Folk Center, and you’ll be rewarded with fiddles, banjos, guitars and a passion for music.

About where Branson billboards really begin to clutter U.S. 65 south of Springfield, a little road takes off east, winding through woods and pasture, passing cattle and crossing a creek.

The Ozark’s Mountain Challenge is to walk to the top of Mudlick Mountain - 9 times in 12 hours on Saturday, May 4. Mudlick Mountain is located in the Sam A Baker State Park in Wayne County ...