ARKANSAS HIKING TRAILS LIST
With links to:

Northwest Arkansas region trails - Ozark Mountains
Arkansas River Valley region trails
Southwest Arkansas region trails - Ouachita Mountains
East Arkansas region trails

LONGEST HIKING TRAILS IN ARKANSAS
This site has tremendous coverage of these Arkansas regions with simple colorful map of the regions and then right on the homepage nicely arranged tons of info about trails in each of these regions. In the Northwest region of Ark you can click on the first trail listed -

Ozark Highland Trail and see the breath-taking, cliff hanger picture. Then read info about the 1.2 million acre Ozark-St. Francis National Forest and its finest hiking trail in Arkansas which is rated one of the top-10 trails in US.

Love waterfalls? -This trail -165 miles one way -has hundreds of waterfalls.

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Arkansas State Parks Trails offers info about 40 trail hikes across the 52 parks in the state of Arkansas.

Choices in the hikes include Day Hikes with maps and trails by Difficulty -easy, moderate and strenuous. Also info about wilderness areas where you can make your own trail and hiking guides.

At this page check out the list of easier trail hikes at parks across the state of Arkansas. Click on each one to learn info about the hike and location.

For example the Lost Valley Trail at Buffalo National River takes just a few hours for a 3 1/2 miles round trip.On this hike you will see waterfalls, a cascading creek, towering cliffs, a large bluff shelter, a natural bridge, in the spring -wildflowers and a hardwood forest containing American beech. The cave itself is a tight squeeze for approximately 200 feet ending in a large room with a 35-foot-tall waterfall.

For a strenuous hike see the 4 mile Caddo Bend Trail near Lake Ouachita. That hike location is: 3 miles west of Hot Springs on U.S. 270, then 12 miles north on Hwy. 227.

Before horses arrived with the Spanish to the new world the Caddo Indians for whom the trail is named hiked everywhere they went. These were the Indians that gave the name of Tejas to Texas. They were friendly Indians to the newcomers and lived in villages up and down the Red River. In the area of Lake Quachita the Indians found a spring they thought had curative help- known now as Three Sisters Springs.

Click here to enter your favorite Arkansas Hike.