Ouachita Trail Crossing -- Talimena Scenic Byway, Leflore Co. OK - Long Distance Hiking Trails on Waymarking.com

This wide crossing point for the Ouachita Trail on the Talimena Scenic byway is a popular spot to on- and off-load mountain bikes and bikers onto the Ouachita Trail.

The crossing is well marked and heavily used. The day Blasterz were here, we saw several mountain bikers loading their bikes onto waiting trucks after a charity ride.

From Hiking Trails of the Ouachita Mountains: (visit link)

"Background. The Ouachita National Recreation Trail is 223 miles stretching from Talimena State Park in Oklahoma to Pinnacle Mountain State Park on the outskirts of Little Rock, Arkansas. The trail stays in the Ouachita National Forest from Oklahoma to Arkansas Highway 9. From there to the end, the trail passes through lands under varied ownership and is administered by Pinnacle Mountain State Park.

While there are maps of the Ouachita Trail, none exist that have the terrain detail available from the USGS 1:24,000 topographic maps and created from GPS tracks. Though I have been intending to hike the trail and produce the same quality maps as the Ozark Highland Trail series, Buffalo River Trail series and the numerous other hike on this website, I have not gotten much past the first 50 miles in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, there have been several intrepid hikers who have tracked all or some of the trail and posted those tracks on the Internet. The following are my preliminary maps, based on all the data I could find. The tracks of the trail are a composite of that data. See the bottom of the webpage for credits.

The Maps. The 29 topos are a little further down the page. They begin at Talimena State Park and end at Pinnacle Mountain. The maps are free downloads that are formatted to print at scale (1:24,000) on 11 x 17 paper. Click on the image to get to the full size map and right click to download. It is free! Thay are also available printed in color on weather proof, Rite in the Rain, 11 x 17 paper. If you are interested, send me an email (see bottom of page for price and details)."

Recommended number of days to complete: 12.00 Distance in miles or kilometres: 223 miles Shelters?: Yes Designated campsites?: Yes Number of designated campsites: 13 Permit Required?: No Trail Website: [Web Link] Best Season to Hike?: fall Overnight parking fee: 5.00 (listed in local currency) Permit Fees?: 0.00 (listed in local currency) Coordinates of the other end's trailhead: Not Listed Overnight parking coordinates: Not Listed Intermediate Trailhead 1: Not Listed Intermediate Trailhead 2: Not Listed Intermediate Trailhead 3: Not Listed Intermediate Trailhead 4: Not Listed Intermediate Trailhead 5: Not Listed

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Date Logged Log User Rating   11/11/2017 Benchmark Blasterz visited it