Charlton Recreation Area

The Ouachita National Forest comprises of 1,784,457 sections of land of woods situated in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. It incorporates the majority of the grand Ouachita Mountains. These forests were never logged and today contain very nearly 800,000 sections of land of old development timberland. This incredibly thick backwoods has ious beautiful climbing, biking, and horseback riding trails.The Charlton Recreation Area is found somewhere down in the woods between Crystal Springs and Mount Ida only north of Route 270. There is a campground and offices for angling and swimming on Walnut Creek. There is likewise a little simulated lake framed in 1938 by the damming of the spring.