Arkansas River Trail Loop

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Trail stats

Distance: 15.5 mi
Elevation gain: 213 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 213 ft
Max elevation: 328 ft
TrailRank: 23
Min elevation: 246 ft
Trail type: Loop

Time: one hour 8 minutes
Coordinates: 845
Uploaded: July 13, 2012
Recorded: July 2012

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near North Little Rock, Arkansas (United States)

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Itinerary description

There are many "official" distances for the Arkansas River Trail ranging from 14 miles to 17 miles, none of which include the new spur out to Two Rivers and beyond. This track follows the paved cycling trail from the Clinton Library parking area at the Rivermarket up the south side of the river across the Big Dam Bridge back along the north side of the river and across the new Clinton Presidential Park Bridge. There are a few places where you can cut a little time and distance by sticking with the road and/or bike line along side the road but I prefer to avoid vehicular traffic as much as possible. The worst stretch (traffic-wise) is the section begining with the turn onto Arch Street and ending when you turn off Cantrell onto the North Street connector as there are no bike lanes for this section of heavily traveled city streets. The other places where you have to join the road are very lightly traveled and/or have good bike-lanes.

Waypoints

Cut-off for Cooks landing

A turn here will take you along the side channel of the river to the Cooks Landing parking area.

Cooks Landing parking

Arch Street turn

Turn up the hill onto Arch Street. The trail foward dead-ends at the union-pacific railroad crossing under Cantrell.

Ballfields

The path leaves waterworks road and runs along side some softball fields.

Bike Lane

River front road has a nice bike-lane, or for most of the length of the road you can ride the roughly paved trail.

Boatramp parking

More parking near the Burn's Park Boat Ramp.

Continues to Two Rivers Bridge

Turn here to cross the BDB or continue ahead to the old Coast Guard station where the new Two Rivers Bridge takes you towards Pinnacle.

La Harpe Blvd

NLR parking

North St connection

North St 1200-1599

Parking

Restrooms and Parking

Halfway across Burns park is a permenant restroom. (Beats the porta-johns.)

Rivermarket Parking

Large parking area near the Rivermarket and Clinton Presidential Library.

Sidewalk

260 ft height

Skate park parking

Soccerfields

street

Split

under Cantrel

leaving the sidewalk you ignore teh do-not-enter sign (it's for cars) and go under Cantrell road.

Union Pacific Bridge

Until the Clinton Bridge was finished this was the eastern end of the loop and invovled carrying you bike up three flights of stairs riding an elevator up to bridge level.

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