Arklahoma HikerMike Newman, editor and creator of Arklahoma Hiker, likes to day hike and walk outdoors in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
About a month ago during the holidays, my brother and I did a hike up the West Summit Trail at Pinnacle Mountain State Park (Pulaski County, near Little Rock). This is an awesome trail. There are two trails that will get you to the top of Pinnacle Mountain: the East Summit Trail and the West […]
One of the highlights of the Devil’s Den Self-Guided Trail (also referred to as the “cave trail”) at Devil’s Den State Park is Twin Falls, a scenic double waterfall. Like many Arkansas waterfalls, you can’t always expect to see a good flow on a particular day. So it was a real treat for me a few weeks […]
The Benefield East Loop Trail at Mount Magazine State Park is one of my favorite short trails. This one-mile loop has some of the best views in the park. (Other trails with great views are the North Rim Trail and the Bear Hollow Trail.) Mount Magazine State Park sits on the highest mountain in Arkansas. […]
The Reservoir Trail at Queen Wilhelmina State Park is a short but vigorous hillside walk that starts right behind the lodge. It makes a .4-mile (each way) downhill zigzag on the south side of Rich Mountain leading to a historic reservoir.
Queen Wilhelmina is a wonderful state park that sits on top of Rich Mountain, Arkansas’s second highest mountain in the Ouachita National Forest. The Ouachita Trail, a 223-mile hiking trail that runs from LeFlore County, Oklahoma, to Pulaski County, Arkansas, runs through the middle of the park. There also are a couple of short trails in the […]
I love walking the Pedestal Rocks Trail in the Ozark National Forest. It has some of the most amazing natural features in Arkansas. Pedestal Rocks Trail and the Kings Bluff Trail are in the Pedestal Rocks Scenic Area at the north end of Pope County (close to Newton County) on Highway 16 near the community of […]