Hike #13 - Lake Sequoyah

I'm not sure what the attachment to "Sequoyah" is here in Fayetteville, but today we hit another local spot, Lake Sequoyah.  We have found this spot is very well known among fishermen (and fisherwomen!), but the growth that encroaches on the trail (it is not so bad in fall/winter) makes it clear that it is little used among hikers.  We have done two different trails here, but we find that almost no one knows about it.  Someone seems to be trying to change that though.  There are some nice new signs with trail maps.  An exciting plus is that the trail maps include three more trails we didn't know about.  Two of them are only accessible during low water when you can cross the spillway.  Today we did the King Fisher Trail.

This out and back trail is just over 3 miles.  There are some nice views of the lake and some neat outcroppings and trail switchbacks.  The highlight for the kids though is a downed tree that was made for climbing.  The base is right by the trail, but the top branches prop it up so it stays level as the ground slopes away.  The result is that pretty quickly the kids are 12 feet off the ground.  They are much more excited about that than mom is.

There are some other neat features at the lake that are not exactly part of this trail.  You enter the park across an intimidating one-lane bridge.  One of the opposite side of the lake from this trail is a horse ranch where you can get trail rides around the lake.  There is also a very impressive spillway that ties into the white river.  Today the spillway had pretty high water.  A different day when we were here there was a family catching, cleaning, and cooking fish on a charcoal fire they had going by the spillway.

I also just came across this video of a segment of a local outdoor show that was made about Lake Sequoyah.

                  

Travel time from home: 10 minutes
Today's miles 3.09
Remaining miles: 54.8