The Arkansas State Parks in collaboration with Frontier Climbing Company, are opening the Petit Jean Via Ferrata, a guided mountain adventure at Petit Jean State Park. The via ferrata is currently the only via ferrata located in a state park in the country. Petit Jean became Arkansas’ first state park in 1923, and the mountain’s scenery is widely credited with inspiring the creation of the state park system. “When you’re the only place in the country where you can do something special in a state park, people notice — and they come see it for themselves. What we have done is create more ways to explore our first State Park while welcoming families back again and again to try something new.”