Mount Magazine | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,753 ft (839 m) NAVD 88[1] |
Prominence | 2,143 ft (653 m)[2] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 35°10′01″N 93°38′41″W / 35.167016203°N 93.644725919°W[1] |
Geography | |
Location | Logan County, Arkansas, U.S. |
Parent range | Ouachita Mountains, U.S. Interior Highlands |
Topo map | USGS Blue Mountain |
Climbing | |
Easiest route | Paved road |
Mount Magazine, officially named Magazine Mountain, is the highest point of the U.S. Interior Highlands and the U.S. state of Arkansas, and is the site of Mount Magazine State Park.[3] It is a flat-topped mountain or mesa capped by hard rock and rimmed by precipitous cliffs. There are two summits atop the mountain: Signal Hill, which reaches 2,753 feet (839 m), and Mossback Ridge, which reaches 2,700 ft (823 m).
Mount Magazine is often called "the highest point between the Alleghenies and the Rockies" (there are mountains located in the Trans-Pecos region of far-west Texas which exceed Mount Magazine in elevation and prominence, although the Trans-Pecos region lies so far south of the Rockies, that region arguably lies not "between" the Allegheny Mountains and the Rocky Mountains).