Fayetteville, Arkansas, is blessed with a number of nice urban trails. A couple of weeks ago, I walked the Lake Fayetteville Paved Trail that loops around Lake Fayetteville. It’s a pretty nice urban trail.
The trail starts at Veterans Memorial Park, near the southwest end of the lake, and then heads north to run clockwise around the lake. Currently, the paved Lake Fayetteville Trail doesn’t go all the way around the lake. It is about 4.3 miles.
To complete the loop back to Veterans Memorial Park, I walked the nonpaved Lake Fayetteville Nature Trail (taking a left turn onto the nature trail) for another .8 miles.
Lake Fayetteville Trail Map
Click here for full-screen trail map.
It is not a difficult walk. There is very little elevation change.
Unfortunately, the only views of the lake from the paved trail (during leaf-on anyway) are on the west end of the lake.
By the way, the gpx trail map and the elevation map I posted include the full 5.5 miles around the lake that I walked. But remember that only the first 4.3 miles is paved.
The official website for the trail is at this link. Download the official trail map here and the official Fayetteville Trails Guide here. (Both pdfs.)
Click here for gpx file download.
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