Mount Magazine is tallest mountain in the state of Arkansas and the Ozark plateau. The mountain is a flat-topped plateau with a sandstone cap rimmed by precipitous rock cliffs.
The peak is in the Boston Mountains, 120 miles Northwest of Little Rock. It sits in the midst of the Ozark National Forest in the Arkansas River Valley approximately 17 miles south of Paris, Logan County, Arkansas. The mountain itself is in Mount Magazine State Park, and the highest point on the mountain is called Signal Hill. Mount Magazine State Park is a well-developed state park, complete with a full array of services, campground, and recreational activities. There are some technical climbing areas, where there is rappelling and rock climbing on 200-foot high bluffs. In terms of rock climbing, the tallest route at Mt. Magazine is 90 ft. (5.9)
The mountain gets its name from when French explorers were traveling through the area and a landslide occurred on the mountain. The noise from the landslide was so great that one explorer described it as the sound of an ammunition magazine exploding. The explorers then named the mountain “Magazine”.
