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Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

Park

  • Pinnacle Mountain
  • Plum Bayou Mounds

Region

  • [X] Central

Park Activity

  • Climbing
  • Hiking
  • Watchable Wildlife

Trail Type

  • Day Hikes

Trail Difficulty

  • Strenuous

Author

  • Arkansas State Parks Staff
  • David Armstrong
  • Grady Spann
  • Jason Baumgartner
  • Jason Parrie
  • Jenn Menge
  • Joe Jacobs
  • Kayla Gomance
  • Kelly Farrell
  • Leita Spears
  • Maggie Howard
  • Matt Manos
  • Megan Ayres Moore
  • Meg Matthews
  • Melissa Ray
  • Monika Rued
  • Robin Gabe
  • Sasha Bowles
  • Tara Gillanders
  • Zoie Clift
  • [X] Amy Griffin
  • [X] Ron Salley

Date Published

  • June 2020
  • August 2016

Connecting to a Prehistoric People   

Jun 2020
  ⁄  
Amy Griffin

Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park in Scott, Arkansas is a unique American Indian mound complex that was the cultural center of the Plum Bayou people, who interacted with their environment and each other much as we do today. The Plum Bayou people are a group of prehistoric American Indian mound builders who lived here between 650 – 1050 AD. They built one of the...

Sun setting over a mound at Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park

Is Pinnacle Mountain a Volcano?

Aug 2016
  ⁄  
Ron Salley

Pinnacle Mountain stands about 1,000 feet above sea level, is on the extreme eastern edge of the Ouachita Mountain range, and sits where three rivers converge.

Pinnacle Mountain
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