Hiking - Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
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KnappTrail
Length: 8/10 mile
Time: 3/4 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Brochure: Available at visitor center
Description: This fully-accessible self-guided trail and boardwalk leads visitors through this pre-historic Indian site. See three of the 18 mounds that once stood within the site's earthen embankment. A self-guided tour brochure describes this archeological site inhabited by Native Americans over a thousand years ago.
Location: From Little Rock, take Exit #7 off I-440 and go nine miles southeast on U.S. 165
Plum Bayou Trail
Length: 1.5 miles
Time: 1.25 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Brochure: A self-guided brochure describing the trail is available at the visitor center
Description: This level turf trail follows the contour of the now destroyed earthen embankment wall and ditch around the northern half of the site. It joins the Knapp Trail for the boardwalk overlooking Mound Lake, an oxbow of the Arkansas River. It diverges from the Knapp Trail for a closer look and the surviving section of the embankment wall and one of the barrow pits where Native Americans dug the soil to build these mounds 1,000 years ago.
Location: From Little Rock, take Exit #7 off I-440 and go nine miles southeast on U.S. 165
For Information:
Park Superintendent,
490 Toltec Mounds Road,
Scott,
AR
72142
, (501) 961-9442
toltecmounds@arkansas.com
- Contact Information
- 490 Toltec Mounds Road
Scott, AR 72142
- Email: toltecmounds@arkansas.com)
- 501-961-9442
- ArkansasStateParks.com
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