Magazine Mountain
Magazine Mountain rises to 837 m in Arkansas. Signal Hill stands 837 m to the west, less than a tenth of a mile off. Mount Magazine Scenic Byway runs past it.
The story
Mount Magazine, officially named Magazine Mountain, is the highest point of the U.S. Interior Highlands and the U.S. state of Arkansas, and is the site of Mount Magazine State Park. It is a flat-topped mountain or mesa capped by hard rock and rimmed by precipitous cliffs. There are two summits atop the mountain: Signal Hill, which reaches 2,753 ft (839 m) and Mossback Ridge, which reaches 2,700 ft (823 m). Mount Magazine is often called "the highest point between the Alleghenies and the Rockies" (there are mountains located in the Trans-Pecos region of far-west Texas which exceed Mount Magazine in elevation and prominence, although the Trans-Pecos region lies so far south of the Rockies, that region arguably lies not "between" the Allegheny Mountains and the Rocky Mountains). However, there are higher points in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.
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Wikidata Q515059, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 837 m
How to reach it
- On the Mount Magazine Scenic Byway
- 25.5 mi off the Arkansas Scenic 7 Byway
- 29.6 mi off the Ozark Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Inspiration Point · 2 mi
- Lookout Window · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Signal Hill: 0.0 mi
- Snake Knob: 2.3 mi
- East Snake Knob: 2.6 mi
- Turkey Knob: 3.5 mi
- Flattop Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Brown Springs Recreation Area: 0.4 mi
- Cameron Bluff Recreation Area: 0.6 mi
- (former) Dripping Springs Recreation Area: 1.4 mi
- Greenfield Recreation Area: 1.6 mi
- East End Recreation Area: 2.2 mi
- Brown's Spring: 0.4 mi
- Turkey Springs: 1.4 mi
- Slocum Spring: 1.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 1.9 mi
- Buckman's Spring: 2.6 mi
- Cameron Bluff: 0.4 mi
- Half Bushel: 10.5 mi
- South Bluff: 11.9 mi
- North Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Buzzard Bluff: 14.6 mi
- Mt Magazine Falls: 0.4 mi
- Mt Magazine Cascade: 0.7 mi
- Lori Falls: 0.9 mi
- Lacey Creek Falls: 2.6 mi
- Hardy Falls: 4.7 mi
- Yell County Law Enforcment Memorial: 16.1 mi
- Veterans Monument: 16.2 mi
- Bood's Monument: 16.2 mi
- V for Victory memorial: 16.3 mi
- Summit Park Hotel Site: 22.1 mi
- Mount Magazine State Park: 0.5 mi
- Nimrod State Wildlife Management Area: 21.0 mi
- Mount Nebo State Park: 22.0 mi
- Mount Nebo State Park: 22.4 mi
- Logan County "Old Jail" Museum: 10.0 mi
- Johnson County Historical Society: 23.3 mi
- Belle Museum & Chapel: 24.0 mi
- Ozark Area Depot Museum: 24.2 mi
- Big Piney Rest Area – Eastbound: 21.9 mi
- Overlook Rest Area - Westbound: 22.1 mi
- Big Piney Rest Area - Westbound: 23.5 mi
- Needle's Eye: 1.4 mi
- The Window: 1.4 mi
- Buckman's Pool: 2.6 mi
- Lover's Leap: 22.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Magazine Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Hill | W 270° | 837 m | 0.0 mi |
| Petit Jean Mountain | SSW 197° | 745 m | 10.5 mi |
| Flood Mountain | SSW 200° | 684 m | 9.1 mi |
| Potato Hill Mountain | S 182° | 677 m | 8.3 mi |
| White Oak Mountain | SW 233° | 674 m | 21.4 mi |
| Hogan Mountain | SSW 208° | 630 m | 13.4 mi |
| Beurknob Mountain | SSW 209° | 616 m | 15.0 mi |
| Kingdoodle Knob | SW 215° | 612 m | 17.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:53 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:55 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:40 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:28 | 17:07 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 51 | 60 | 69 | 77 | 81 | 80 | 73 | 62 | 50 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blue MTN DAM, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359008699
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