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The Ouachita National Forest during the fall A map of the Ouachita mountains within the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Topographic map of the Ouachita Mountains. The Ouachitas are a major physiographic province of Arkansas and Oklahoma and are generally grouped with the Arkansas River Valley.
The Ouachita National Forest is the oldest National Forest in the southern United States. The forest encompasses 1,784,457 acres (7,221 km 2), including most of the scenic Ouachita Mountain Range. Six locations in the forest, comprising 65,000 acres (263 km 2), have been congressionally-designated as wilderness areas.
Kiamichi Mountains. The Kiamichi Mountains (Choctaw: Nʋnih Chaha Kiamitia) are a mountain range in southeastern Oklahoma. A subrange within the larger Ouachita Mountains that extend from Oklahoma to western Arkansas, [1] the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Le Flore, Pushmataha and McCurtain counties near the towns of Poteau, Albion and Smithville.
The Ozark and Ouachita (pronounced Oh-Wa-Sheet-ah) Mountains rise from west to east over the state's eastern third, gradually increasing in elevation in an eastward direction. [7] [9] Oklahoma had few natural lakes. Those that did exist were either oxbow or playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes above 10 acres (0.040 km 2) in size.
Ouachita National Recreation Trail is a 223-mile (359 km) long, continuous hiking trail through the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is the longest backpacking trail in the Ouachita National Forest, spanning 192 miles across its length. [1] Approximately 177 miles of the trail is in Arkansas and 46 miles of the trail is in Oklahoma.
There are three distinct mountain ranges within the U.S. Interior Highlands: The Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, which can be divided into a number of subranges including the mountains of the Arkansas River Valley (called the Frontal Ouachita Mountains); the highest point is Mount Magazine at 2,753 ft (839 m).
Southeast Oklahoma is far more mountainous and forested than any other part of the state, containing most of the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma, the Arbuckle Mountains, and five other mountain ranges. The Ouachita National Forest, Oklahoma's only national forest, is also in this area. Choctaw Country also houses "The World's Highest Hill," a ...
The Talimena Scenic Drive features 22 vistas along its route. The Talimena Scenic Drive traverses the Winding Stair Mountains in the Ouachita National Forest.. The Talimena Scenic Drive is a National Scenic Byway in southeastern Oklahoma and extreme western Arkansas spanning a 54.0-mile (86.9 km) stretch of Oklahoma State Highway 1 (SH-1) and Arkansas Highway 88 (AR 88) from Talihina, Oklahoma ...