Round Top Mountain Trail — Attraction in Arkansas

This is a nice hike. You have two entrances that you can drive up and park. Gravel roads.

Take a picture of the trail sign before you start. This will prove helpful as there are many ways to go. There is a paved trail at the bottom. You might be curious. We were and walked it. It's a dead end. Like don't even bother. Don't let your curiosity get the best of you.

We do the loop trail. And the North Trail. Make sure and do the North Trail. The rock stair cases take you there. Once you top, you will have three ways to go. Go straight or to your right (if you are looking at the signs). Both will take you to the lookout, which has great picture taking ops.

The loop trail takes you by the plane wreckage. There is also a big tree that has fallen on the path. Just go around it and get back up. Shortly after will be poison ivy. Be clothed as this will touch you. Probably about 6 feet you walk through. The loop trail has pretty views, but the trees block most of them so you only get to see glimmers. You might encounter rock climbers on this trail. Something neat on this trail.....look for the rock that has a hole in it. Great little photo op. If you go behind it, there is a like a slot boulder. I say boulder since it's two boulders done like a slot. Kind of a fun hidden gem.

Lastly, we encountered quite a few dogs on the trail...nice friendly dogs....you know what else we encountered? Lots of dog poop. So if you weren't watching, you would step one of the fresh poop bombs. If you are bringing a doggie, please be kind and bring a baggie to pick up the...

We have really liked this trail, it wasn´t difficult and there were quite a bit of interesting things to see. The whole trail runs under the tree cover so it´s in the shade and the up and down the hills are very manageable for most people, but have in mind that it is not a walk through Central Park or through the city park, there are rocks and stones everywhere in the path (even man built rock steps in many up/downhills) , fallen trees...so if you are a clumsy walker, maybe you should think about going somewhere else. We found deer prints in the mud and saw a turtle right on the trail. As at the beginning of the week rained a lot and afterwards the sun has been shinning very nicely, this park (like other places we´ve been) was a mushroom heaven. All types, all sizes. You will find many boulders along the path and some cave like openings in the mountain wall. The views from the North View and South Gap, but specially the North View because is more open, are beautiful. Once we were in the vehicle, I realized that in the original trail map at the entrance, it shows there is an "Indian Shelter" somewhere at the end of the South Gap trail, but because we didn´t know it, we never looked for it. We really enjoyed this...

We took this hike in the fall while the leaves were actually falling. It’s very beautiful but the leaves do somewhat obscure the trail if it hasn’t been tramped down. We got to the southern end of the mountain and got a little confused but luckily we had two bars of cell service and Google maps had our location. Signage is not great on this trail and we had a couple trees that fell blocking the path that we had to go around. Parking was easy but the trail head is not marked from the highway. We hiked about 2.5 miles all the way around the ridge which was about 90 minutes for us with plenty of stops. There are plenty of short steep spots but I say this is a moderate to easy trail. The steepest bit is the switch backs getting up to the loop trail and the bit at the southern end to get over the ridge. On this trail you will see towering rocks, some with cave creating overhangs a B-25 crash site and lots of trees. Note that there are no restroom facilities....