Medical Mile

The Medical Mile is a trail connecting the Little Rock River Market District with the Arkansas River Trail in Riverfront Park. The trail segment - sponsored by the National Park Service River Trails and Conservation Assistance Program, Heart Clinic Arkansas, and the Little Rock Department of Parks and Recreation - cost $2.1 million to build and was completed in December 2003. Said Little Rock mayor Jim Dailey at the dedication ceremony, "When these physicians agreed to help raise money for this project, they made a two year commitment. That was more than three years ago. The excitement within the healthcare community has been so - to use a medical term - contagious, that the project has grown beyond its original scope."

The Medical Mile incorporates a number of special artistic elements by Debra Moseley Lord, including a thirteen hundred foot mural, a promenade, and the St. Vincent Plaza. Arkansas River Trail coordinator Terry Eastin said that he thought of the Medical Mile as "an outdoor linear health museum that uses a variety of artistic and architectural expressions to promote the health benefits of physical activity, and other wellness themes."

The contractor on the Medical Mile was Bell-Corley Construction.