Where Is It?
The Happy Trails hiking column came across this sight while rambling around the state. Do you know where it is?
Hint: This trail meanders on the slope of mountains named after a 19th-century judge. He invested so wisely in real estate that by the 1920s he owned much of his county’s heavily forested hills. But he started out as a teacher and a carpenter, according to the Centennial History of Little Rock by Dallas Tabor Herndon (1922).
Hint 2: The trail is named for a kind of shale once mined in the area.
Think you know?
The Jackfork Mountain Bike Trail is near the Pinnacle Mountain State Park visitor center.
The Happy Trails video of hiking the trail is at arkansasonline.com/happytrails.