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Arch Rock route to Twin Devil's Falls

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Trail stats

Distance
4.07 mi
Elevation gain
417 ft
Technical difficulty
Difficult
Elevation loss
1,194 ft
Max elevation
2,240 ft
TrailRank 
22
Min elevation
1,188 ft
Trail type
One Way
Time
2 hours 51 minutes
Coordinates
807
Uploaded
April 25, 2012
Recorded
April 2012
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near Dickey Junction, Arkansas (United States)

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Itinerary description

This unmaintained trail largely follows old, overgrown logging roads that pre-date the USFS. It is the easiest access to Arch Rock and Sandstone Castle. It is also the best access to the Twin Devil’s Falls that doesn’t involve fording two major creeks or a multi-mile bushwack. The first part of the trail follows an old logging road along the edge of private property which can almost seem like bushwacking during the summer, and then it joins a trail that starts at that same private in-holding and goes all the way out to the Sandstone Castle area. After dropping of the ridge at Arch Rock is rejoins another logging road that isn’t quite as bad as the first stretch and goes sharply downhill to the lower bluff-line then along the bluff to the point where a trail snakes down between the twin falls. Once down in the Big Devil's Fork canyon it's a short hike up to Hamilton Falls.

To access the area below the falls it is necessary to cross one of the creeks and bushwack around and down. Neither creek is easy to cross during high water, but IMO it is slightly easier to access the bottom via the Long Devil's side.

Waypoints

PictographWaypoint Altitude 2,000 ft

Access to Sandstone Caste

A sloped section of bluff allows acces to the Sandstone Castle caves along the bottom of the bluff.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,006 ft

Arch Rock

One of the larger caves under the bluff, it is also the way down to the path leading on to Twin Devil's Falls.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,289 ft

Hamilton Falls

A short hike up the Big Devil's Fork to enjoy this bonus waterfall.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 0 ft

intersection

Unremarkable on the trip in, it is easy to miss the split in the two old logging roads here on the way back.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 2,221 ft

join trail

Here you join the trail that starts at a gate at the back of the private in-holding.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 1,862 ft

Old road

PictographWaypoint Altitude 2,200 ft

private gate

The owner of the private in-holding is a heavy user of the trail to Sandsone Casle and has private access to best part of the trail.

PictographCar park Altitude 2,043 ft

Roadside parking

Space for 4-6 cars depending on how tightly you pack them. The trailhead is across the road between two wooden posts. Take a hard right beyond the posts on the old logging road that heads uphill.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 0 ft

Rockwall

An old rock wall that may have once defined the edge of a yard, a garden, or a property boundry. The path takes a hard left here.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 1,960 ft

Rockwall 3

he trail mostly stays to the SW side of this one.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 0 ft

Rockwall2

The second of three obvious signs from the days when this area was inhabited.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 1,976 ft

Trail obscured by growth

There are a couple of places like this where a tree has fallen across the trail or briars have overgrown the road and the tread of passing feet has not yet defined a detour.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 2,208 ft

turn s-sw

Here you leave the logging road heading south by southeast for a 200' bushwack to join the main trail.

PictographPhoto Altitude 0 ft

Twin Devil's

The view you have come so far to see, Long Devil's Fork and Big Devil's Fork in side-by-side waterfalls.

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