Blog Introduction

This blog has been established to document the construction of the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail whose nickname is LOViT. The trail is located in the west central mountains of the Ouachita National Forest on the southern shore of Lake Ouachita a 40,000 acre clear water lake managed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers.

I am the unoffical leader of a group of volunteers called the Traildogs who work with the Corp and Forest Service in designing, funding and constructing this new trail. The plan is to construct a trail from an area known as Denby Bay on the southwest end of the lake. If you are trying orient yourself with a map of the lake this area is where US Highway 270 crosses a finger of the lake approaximately 20 west of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The plan is to construct 35 miles trail that will run along the southern shore of the lake connecting all the six major resorts and campgrounds from the Denby Bay area to the Blakely Mountain Dam. In the initial concept stage we determined that access to the trail would be at multiple points utilizing the existing access roads to the resorts and campgrounds.