Pencil Bluff is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States. Pencil Bluff is located at the junction of U.S. Route 270 and Arkansas Highway 88, 7.
If you’re planning this same drive and want to know all about it – how long it is, how long it takes, and where to stop along the way – read on. By the end of this post, you’ll know everything about the drive between Charleston and Pencil Bluff.
As the crow flies, it’s roughly 49 miles between Charleston and Pencil Bluff. Luckily, we can’t skip over all the good stuff and have to drive – that means seeing some of the sights and countryside between these two points.
For driving, it is roughly 79 miles or 127 km between Charleston and Pencil Bluff. This may vary slightly depending on your start and end points.
In terms of travel time by car, the 79 miles drive from Charleston to Pencil Bluff takes 2 hours . Again, your final drive time depends on where you start in Charleston and end in Pencil Bluff.
As 79 miles is roughly one tank of gas, you may or may not need to stop for gas along the way; there are plenty of options along these major roads.
Realistically, you're not going to want to drive without stopping all the way from Charleston to Pencil Bluff, especially if you're the main driver. So let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Pencil Bluff, and you need to stop along the way to rest. Plus if it's a real road trip, you might want to check out interesting stops along the way, eat at great restaurants, and find a hotel to stay overnight. That's what we are perfect for, helping you figure out travel plans in detail.
Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Pencil Bluff, and you want to stop on the way to explore. If it's a real road trip, you might want to check out interesting places along the way, or maybe eat at a great restaurant. That's what we are perfect for, helping you figure out travel plans in detail.
Road trip: 1 days of driving
With the full itinerary planned out, we can estimate your total travel time for this trip.
Travel time: 2 hours on the road
Itinerary
Start at Charleston.
Drive for about 1.9 hours and arrive in Pencil Bluff
To give you a better estimate of real-life travel, we've put together a flight itinerary with actual airports. Eventually you'll be able to customize this plan, choosing your own airports and flights. But for now, here's an example we've selected to give you an idea of how traveling might work between airports.
Departure airport: Fort Smith Regional Airport (FSM)
Arrival airport: Memorial Field Airport (HOT)
With the airports selected, we can estimate the travel time to and from the airport, based on how far the airport is from downtown.
Getting to the airport: 32 minutes
Getting to your destination: 1 hour
Now finally, let's look at an example flight from FSM to HOT and figure out how long it would take to fly including take-off and landing, and time to taxi on the runway.
Commercial flight time: 11 minutes
So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Charleston to Pencil Bluff including time spent getting to/from the airports, an estimated wait time of 2 hours at the airport for TSA security lines and waiting at the gate, and the actual flight itself.
Total travel time: 3 hours 44 minutes
Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Charleston and Pencil Bluff. Because of the curvature of the Earth, the shortest distance is actually the "great circle" distance, or "as the crow flies" which is calculated using an iterative Vincenty formula.
Flight time from Charleston, Arkansas to Pencil Bluff, Arkansas is under avarage conditions.
Our flight time calculator assumes an average flight speed for a commercial airliner of 500 mph, which is equivalent to 805 km/hr or 434 knots.
Actual flight times may vary depending on aircraft type, cruise speed, routing, weather conditions, passenger load, and other factors.