Refract Ventures
Beaver Lake · Hobbs State Park border · Stage 01 · land held

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Fifteen wooded parcels on the edge of Hobbs State Park, just over the bridge from Beaver Lake. We own the land and the road into it, and we’re in no hurry. What goes on it someday is still a daydream — nothing drawn, nothing filed, nothing promised.

15 parcels · 14 lots + the road Stage 01 · land held On the Hobbs border Beaver Lake minutes
Where it stands

Stage 01 — land held.

Fourteen wooded lots and a fifteenth parcel that is the private road itself — fifteen in all, ours — pressed against the 12,000+ acres of Hobbs State Park and just over the bridge from Beaver Lake. The land is the only part that’s real. What we picture on it is simple and not very original: somewhere to put the screen down. A few cabins in the trees, a sauna and a cold plunge, a fire going, the Monument Trails out the back. Analog, on purpose — somewhere to come down from the cloud. That’s as far as we’ll describe it, because that’s as far as it has actually gotten.

To be clear about where this stands: nothing is drawn, engineered, permitted, applied for or promised. We haven’t started working with the city or the county yet, so we don’t know what this land will and won’t allow — and until we’ve had that conversation, we’d rather not describe a project we may not be able to build. Plenty of it may never happen, or may happen in a shape we haven’t thought of. For now it’s trees, a gravel road, and an idea we can’t shake. Two locals are already out there, though: Sky the dog and Kingsley the cat.

The land

What’s actually out there.

Two things are real and one is a daydream. We’d rather be straight about which is which.

Real
Fifteen parcels · ours
14 wooded lots + the private road

Fourteen wooded lots and a fifteenth parcel that is the private road itself, owned outright. No lender, no partner, no clock running. This part is just true.

Held long-term
Real
The Hobbs border · out back
12,000+ acres · Monument Trails · Beaver Lake

The land presses against Hobbs State Park, with the Monument Trails off the back and Beaver Lake just over the bridge. All of it was here long before us and belongs to everybody.

Already there
Stage 01
The idea · someday
A few cabins · a sauna · a cold plunge

Somewhere to put the screen down: a few cabins in the trees, a sauna, a cold plunge, a fire going. Hot, then cold — the reset the name comes from. How many, where, or whether any of it is even allowed here, we genuinely don’t know yet.

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Why here

State park out back, lake over the bridge.

On the Hobbs border

12,000+ acres of Hobbs State Park and the Monument Trails — some of the best singletrack in Arkansas — right off the back of the land.

Beaver Lake minutes away

Just over the bridge from Beaver Lake — 28,000 acres of clear water, marinas, and bluff-lined coves.

Stage 01 — land held

Family-run and patient. We own the road and the parcels outright, so there’s no clock running — nothing filed, nothing broken ground. We’d rather dream it right than rush it.

Nearby

Just over the bridge.

Hobbs State Park — 12,000+ acres Monument Trails (singletrack) Beaver Lake Hobbs Visitor Center War Eagle Mill Rogers (20 min)