Louisiana In Hot Springs, looking for some trails or forest roads

Do you have GAIA GPS, there is a lot of routes and tracks of the Ouachitas on there. Also, you can download all the Ouachita MVUM maps on Avenza Maps for free.
Ouachita MVUM maps

I also attached a GPX file from Hot Springs to Oklahoma through the Ouachitas.

I know HSORV park real well, so if you need any info on the park, I may know it.

GPX viewer

You can use the free Gaia, but the premium allows you to download maps for when you are in areas without cell service (which is pretty much everywhere we want to go). I only use the Gaia for overlanding, and not for anything else. I use trailforks for mt biking and alltrails for hiking, so I usually pay for a year subscription and then when it runs out I don't renew it until I need to use it again.

never used onX, so can't provide any info.

Did you do all three BOH trails at HSORV?

gasiorv said:

Do you have GAIA GPS, there is a lot of routes and tracks of the Ouachitas on there. Also, you can download all the Ouachita MVUM maps on Avenza Maps for free.
Ouachita MVUM maps

I also attached a GPX file from Hot Springs to Oklahoma through the Ouachitas.

I know HSORV park real well, so if you need any info on the park, I may know it.

GPX viewer

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a real shame, because it looks like the more fun end of the trail, but my understanding is the K trail west of the fire watchtower (to Clayton) is closed and private property. Does that gpx file include that closed section or does it have an alternate route?

That gpx file that I attached was not the exact "K-trail", it was just a track through the ouachitas from Clayton to Hot Springs (which included some of the K-trail) and it was done before the west side was blocked off. The K-Trail goes from Clayton to Mena and I believe the west side of the K-trail has always been on private property, however, the landowners recently leased the land to a wind farm and it is now blocked off.

I don't get over to the Oklahoma side of things very often. I do plan on hitting Rugged Mountain Ranch in the near future.

gasiorv said:

That gpx file that I attached was not the exact "K-trail", it was just a track through the ouachitas from Clayton to Hot Springs (which included some of the K-trail) and it was done before the west side was blocked off. The K-Trail goes from Clayton to Mena and I believe the west side of the K-trail has always been on private property, however, the landowners recently leased the land to a wind farm and it is now blocked off.

I don't get over to the Oklahoma side of things very often. I do plan on hitting Rugged Mountain Ranch in the near future.

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gotcha. I opened it on Google Earth and put it side by side with the Alltrails map of the K trail and I could tell there was some overlap but not total.

I can't say enough how much it SUCKS that they closed the western half. Looking at Earth it looks like the wind farm only takes up a small bit of it so I wonder where the stops are and whether you could bypass the windfarm area and still use some of the trail.



I've never minded wind farms but this might change my mind. I get the need for security but hell, they could have put up some 8' chainlink fence just like they do on a substation; they didn't have to shut down what's probably the best 35 miles of offroad trail in the state.