Arklahoma HikerAwesome Newton County trails including Buffalo National River upper district and Upper Buffalo Wilderness of Ozark National Forest.
For a list of all trails in this group, visit this link.
[Note: as of 7-20-2015, the Lost Valley Trail is closed due to damage from recent flooding. Check with National Park Service for more information.] Back on December 30, I visited Eden Falls on the Lost Valley Trail. It is in the Buffalo National River area near Ponca. (At one time, this was Lost Valley State Park. […]
A few weeks ago, I was going through the Buffalo National River area and went by the Carver access to the river. It straddles the upper and middle districts of the national park and is a few miles south of Hasty on Highway 123 in Newton County. It is also near the Carver Cemetery. There […]
Over the past couple of years, the Buffalo River National River folks have been spending a lot of time and money fixing up many of the old homesteads along the river. The Villines Homestead is one that has gotten a lot of attention lately. The Homestead was built between 1880 and 1940 and belonged to […]
I was excited back on June 2 to be able to be able to see Hemmed-in Hollow Falls when there was plenty of water flowing. (See trail summary here.) Hemmed-in Hollow is in the Upper District of the Buffalo National River, near Compton in Newton County, Arkansas. It is the tallest waterfall in Arkansas. These […]
Today, I got to hike to Hemmed-in Hollow Falls in the Buffalo National River, about 20 miles southwest of Harrison, Arkansas. I made the trek via the main trail from the Compton Trailhead. At 209 feet, the waterfall is the tallest in Arkansas (and the highest between the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains). Hemmed-in Hollow […]
The Erbie area, in the Buffalo National River upper district, has a lot of great hiking trails and several dirt roads that can be used to make loop hikes of various lengths. But sometimes getting to Erbie is a challenge. Directions to Erbie The simplest way to get to Erbie is to come in from […]