Delta Heritage Trail State Park is a 83 mile “Rails to Trails” hiking and biking trail that starts near Lexa and Barton and when finished will end near McGehee. At this time only the first 14 miles is finished (Lexa to Lake View) and open to the public. It is very open and extremely well maintained and runs through some unique delta area landscape we‘re sure you will enjoy. This is a great trail if you like open spaces and wildlife actually living in the wild plus with the easy access you can do this one in small sections using the 5 parking areas provided so far.
This old elevated Delta area railroad easement is now surfaced with small gravel, so smooth all you need are street tires on your bike and no boots needed. No ruts, no mud, no fighting your way through brier patches or poison oak, great bridges, park benches along the way, and there are year round primitive camp sites and picnic tables at the Visitor Center on Hwy#49 plus you can even rent bikes there for the little cachers. (Pick up some bird watching brochures here too, no telling what you may see along the trail.)
These cache names are organized to help orient you along the trail G =Gate at a crossroad,B=at or near a parkBench, P=Parking area, V=Visitor center,C=Camping in area,R=Restrooms in area,T= Trash containers in area,E=End of trail so for safety reasons don't go beyond this cache. And numbered sequentially starting at the Lexa trail head with “#1GPT”.
The trail is open from sunrise to 1 hr after sunset and the Visitor Center/camping/picnic/restrooms gate closes at 9:PM
We hope you enjoy this completely handicap accessible 14 mile trail, you respect the area and you have fun finding all 115 of these geocaches along Arkansas' Delta Heritage Trail State Parks; bike trail.
*Arkansas State Parks Permit: PT15-017*
***FTF bonus***: 10 randomly chosen locations will contain a FTF bonus of $10 each plus a few contain Arkansas State Parks hiking stick medallion bonuses. These locations will remain a secret until found. From time to time these cash bonuses and/or finder bonus prizes will be secretly reloaded.***
Description of cache: Keymag on the geocaching sign. Please show some respect for the size of these micro logs and don’t use stickers or signatures that take up more then one line. Thanks!
"Delta Heritage Trail State Park"
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