Arklahoma Hiker
About a week ago, I went out to Mount Nebo State Park and was very excited to see the waterfall flowing well. The seasonal waterfall is located just a little bit below the rim level at the south end of the mountain. The easiest way to get to it is to go down the Gum […]
Back on October 22, my girlfriend and I had a nice walk on the 1-mile Horton Slough Trail at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, near Vian, Oklahoma. This is an easy-to-walk paved nature trail. It starts by the headquarters building and follows the Horton Slough to the shore of Sally Jones Lake where there is […]
Yesterday, we took the opportunity to spend the afternoon hiking one of the many hiking loops at Pea Ridge National Military Park in Pea Ridge, Arkansas. It was a nice day for a hike with temperatures reaching close to 40 degrees. There was still some snow on the ground from the recent snowfall, but by […]
Last Saturday I had an eventful hike on the Ouachita Trail. I was on Section 4, just east of Highway 71 on East Fourche Mountain.Some hot hiking, lots of thunder and lightning, and an hour-long thunder shower. And I saw a bear. One of my goals is to day hike the entire Ouachita Trail in […]
[This post was originally published on May 21, 2011 on “A Hiking We Will Go.”] This weekend, we hiked the Beacham Trail at Lake Leatherwood in Eureka Springs. This trail has been on my list for quite a while, having read about it in Tim Ernst’s Arkansas Hiking Trails. There are several trails around Lake […]
This week we backpacked the first section of the Buffalo River Trail from Boxley to Ponca, a total of 11.1 miles. We had originally planned to do this hike with a couple of friends, but alas, Mother’s Day interfered with that plan. Since we’d already tried twice before to hit this trail and been delayed […]