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Bismarck Lookout - Hot Spring COHP, AR
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| Hiking | 2.94 Miles |
719 AEG |
| | Hiking | 2.94 Miles | 1 Hour 11 Mns | | 2.67 mph |
| 719 ft AEG | 5 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | This was a hike to the Bismarck Lookout, which is the highpoint of Hot Spring County. The county seat is Malvern. Interestingly, the town of Hot Springs is in Garland County, although once upon a time it was in Hot Spring County.
This was a road walk. The road was in decent shape, and with a high clearance 4WD vehicle you could drive all the way to the top. On my way up I saw 3 service vehicles driving back down from the peak, and on my descent a couple of squirrel hunters were driving up the road.
The surveyors datasheet refers to this as Mount Pleasant on Jack Mountain. I did not locate the benchmark but one of the reference marks, RM2, was stamped "Pleasant" and dated 1941. Someone had painted it red. I some more red paint on a concrete footing and walked over to it expecting to see the other reference mark. However, instead of a disk there was an etching in the concrete in the shape of a cross. I am not certain, but I am thinking that this was used as the other reference mark.
The lookout tower that was once atop the mountain is no longer there; all that remains are the 4 concrete footings. |
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