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  Mount Magazine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mount Magazine is the tallest mountain in the state of (A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Arkansas and is the site of Arkansas's newest state park.
Mount Magazine is 2,753 feet above (Level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth) sea level.
The mountain is a flat-topped plateau with a sandstone cap rimmed by precipitous rock cliffs.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mount_magazine.htm   (523 words)

  
 SummitPost.org - Mount Magazine-Signal Hill - Overview
Mount Magazine is a flat-topped plateau with a sandstone cap rimmed by precipitous rock cliffs.
Mount Magazine-Signal Hill is the highest peak in Arkansas and the Ozark plateau.
Mount Magazine State Park is a well-developed state park, complete with a full array of services, campground, and recreational activities.
www.summitpost.org /mountains/display_component.pl/p/type__component__object_id__40835__mountain_id__3457__route_id____component_id__40835   (471 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reservations for 2006 can be made now for Mount Magazine State Park’s new 60-room lodge, conference center, and 13 cabins that are under construction on the bluff of 2,753-foot Mount Magazine, Arkansas’s highest mountain.
Mount Magazine State Park's new 60-room mountain lodge, restaurant, conference center, and 13 cabins are under construction and taking shape on the mountain's south bluff.
Mount Magazine State Park is located on Scenic Highway 309 approximately 17 miles south of Paris; or from Danville, travel nine miles west on Ark. 10 to Havana, then go 10 miles north on Scenic Highway 309.
www.arkansasstateparks.com /mtmagazine   (1091 words)

  
 American Butterflies Summer 1998 Page 24
Then in 1997, Mount Magazine hosted its first butterfly festival (see Butterfly Festivals, this issue), and during that same year, the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism assumed control of the mountain's summit to officially begin a program of development that will usher in a new era for the state's celebrity mountain.
Mount Magazine, its two nearby sister peaks (Mount Nebo and Petit Jean Mountain), the Ouachitas (northwest Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma), and the Ozarks (northern Arkansas and southern Missouri) all constitute what geographers and geologists refer to as the Interior Highlands of the Midwest.
Therefore, Mount Magazine is home to 71 percent of the state's breeding butterfly populations and 60 percent of the total species recorded from the state.
www.naba.org /pubs/ab98b/p24.html   (2851 words)

  
 Arkansas, Labor Day Weekend, 2001
With the opening of Mount Magazine State Park, campers will now be able to take their camping experiences to new heights in Arkansas.
Mount Magazine, located in Logan County within the Ozark National Forest, is the highest point in Arkansas rising 2,753 feet above the Arkansas River Valley, and is the home of Arkansas’s newest state park.
MOUNT MAGAZINE SCENIC BYWAY - Arkansas Highway 309, a National Scenic Byway, winds to the top of Mount Magazine.
backpackingtexan.tripod.com /arkansas.html   (621 words)

  
 Happy Mother's Day from Paris
Mount Magazine is the highest point in Arkansas and is located 16 miles south of Paris on Scenic 309 Byway.
Mount Magazine offers tourists not only the serenity of it natural beauty with scenic overlooks and Historical significance, but also provides areas to tourists for camping, fishing, hunting, picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, hand gliding and rappelling.
Mount Magazine is one of the most beautiful high points in the state of Arkansas.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/arkansas/68794   (487 words)

  
 Magazine Antiques: Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, "the Paradise of America" - Current and Coming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An exhibition that examines the importance of this locale in nineteenth-century art and literature is fittingly on view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts, from September 3 to December 8.
Mount Holyoke College, situated minutes away from the mountain for which it was named, was founded by Mary Lyon in 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
The painting had an impact on artists working in the 1970s, who were drawn to Mount Holyoke, while at the same time local, state, and federal officials were urged by concerned citizens and environmentalists to preserve the pristine parts of the mountain and the magnificent vistas from the summit that evoked an earlier time.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_3_162/ai_91088102   (653 words)

  
 Mt. Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mount Magazine State Park is located on Scenic Highway 309 approximately 17 miles south of Paris, Arkansas; or from Danville, travel nine miles west on Ark. 10 to Havana, then go 10 miles north on Scenic Highway 309.
The rock at Mt. Magazine is an extremely compact, fine-grained sandstone very similar to the rock at Robber's Cave.
However, it's good to remember that Mt. Magazine has an elevation of 2,753 feet, and it is not unusual for it to be 10 degrees cooler on top than in the surrounding lowlands.
www.texasmountaineers.org /mt_magazine.htm   (1148 words)

  
 The Interpretive Perspective: Bringing Arkansas's Past to Life
If hikers along one of Mount Magazine's secluded hiking trails were to see Don Simons step out of the woods clad in a bearskin robe and buckskin pants, carrying a tomahawk and armed with an authentic flintlock rifle, they might think they'd wandered back in time to the 1820s.
In reality, what the hikers would be encountering is a living history character fashioned by Simons, an interpreter at Mount Magazine State Park, after he'd researched historical records of bear hunters who lived in the area during the early 19th century.
Mount Magazine State Park is located on Ark. Scenic Highway 309, 17 miles south of Paris.
www.outdoorcentral.com /mc/pr/03/02/28b2.asp   (1108 words)

  
 Mount Magazine Scenic Byway - Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Mt. Magazine Scenic Byway includes a 20.4 mile segment of Arkansas State Highway 309 from the Magazine District forest boundary south of Paris to just north of Havana.
Magazine Scenic Byway and the adjoining developed forest roads provide the visitor with an exquisite winding mountain drive with sharp curves and "hairpin" switchbacks leading the traveler over this flat-topped mountain.
At an elevation of 2,753 feet, Mt. Magazine is the highest point in the state.
www.byways.org /browse/byways/2158/overview.html   (296 words)

  
 Mount Aloysius Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mount Aloysius College is known to be one of the leading educators of nurses in this region,” said Sr.
In response to both the nation and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s critical shortage of nurses and nurse educators, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundation established the Nursing Education Grant Program as a means of closing the gap between demand and the nursing resources available to serve Pennsylvanians across the spectrum of health care settings.
Frank Crouse, Mount Aloysius College Dean of Enrollment Management, receives a check in the amount of $52,000 from Michael Hershock, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundation.
www.mtaloy.edu /Magazine/nursing_grant.htm   (276 words)

  
 Today's THV KTHV Little Rock
Mount Magazine is the newest state park in Arkansas.
Magazine State Park Superintendent David Flugrad says, “They'd at least come up here in the summer because the summer temperatures were a lot cooler than the valley, at least 10 degrees cooler.
Of course, Mount Magazine's greatest attraction is always the view.
www.kthv.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=13192   (529 words)

  
 Mount Magazine Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Mt. Magazine Butterfly festival was held the first weekend in August.
For the past 6 years or so, Dr. Ross has studied the butterflies of Mt. Magazine and has done his research on the life cycle of the Diana Fritillary.
Magazine, which makes it such a unique place for butterfly enthusiasts.
butterflywebsite.com /gardens/MtMagazine/festival.htm   (224 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version
From Havana, Ark., the Ark. 309/Mount Magazine Scenic Byway quickly begins its ascent through the forests on the slopes of Mount Magazine, the highest peak in Arkansas at 2,753 feet.
Exhibits at the Mount Magazine State Park visitors center focus on the natural and human history of the mountain.
Camping is available on the route at Mount Magazine State Park, in the Ozark National Forest at the Cove Lake Recreation Area, and at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Aux Arc Park on the Arkansas River.
www.arkansas.com /printerFriendly.asp?printPage=/things-to-do/scenic-drives/mount-magazine.asp   (299 words)

  
 Magazine Mountain, Arkansas
Mount Magazine is one of the most handsome state high points and one of the most under appreciated.
In the warm weather, it is aflutter with butterflies (a butterfly festival is held the first weekend in August).
Magazine Mountain is undergoing some major changes that should increase its visibility as it becomes Arkansas's newest full fledged state park in 1999 or 2000 (the park is bordered by Ozark National Forest).
americasroof.com /ar.shtml   (752 words)

  
 Magazine Holders and Acrylic Brochure Holders
Thermoformed as one piece with rounded corners from scratch-resistant PETG plastic, this wall mount magazine rack stands up to abuse common in active environments.
Our superior wall mount magazine rack is the professional choice for space saving display and convenient display of magazines, brochures or leaflets in offices and lobbies.
Improve the appearance of your magazine display, whether on a wall or a stand, with this optional and innovative prop support that was the victor at the DESIGN PLUS 2001Premiere Paperworld.
www.ergoindemand.com /magazine_brochure_holders_deluxe.htm   (681 words)

  
 American Butterflies Summer 1998 Page 16
Although the Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival was officially scheduled between Friday August 1 and Sunday August 3, festivities actually began on the evening of July 31 with a V.I..P. Reception sponsored by the North Logan County Chamber of Commerce and held in the Community Center of downtown Paris.
Because Mount Magazine is in a rural setting, festival developers were charged with creating a functional, but temporary, infrastructure to support the anticipated large numbers of visitors.
The Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival in Arkansas exploited a natural geographic landmark with an extraordinary abundance of native butterflies.
www.naba.org /pubs/ab98b/p16.html   (2703 words)

  
 Wildernet - Mt. Magazine State Park
Description - Mt. Magazine State Park is currently under development atop 2,753 foot Mount Magazine, Arkansas' highest mountain.
A new campground opened in the spring of 2001 with 18 campsites with water, electric and sewer hookups, a bathhouse, a pavilion and a visitor center.
Location - Mt. Magazine State Park is located atop 2,753-foot Mount Magazine in the Arkansas River Valley Region of western Arkansas.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=ARSPMM&CU_ID=1   (412 words)

  
 Paris Area Chamber of Commerce Tourist Attractions
Mount Magazine offers tourists not only the serenity of its natural beauty with scenic overlooks and historical significance, but also provides areas to tourists for camping, picnicking, hiking horseback riding, hang gliding, and rappelling.
Paris - Logan County Seat, known as the "Gateway to Mount Magazine," is located at the crossroads of State Scenic Highway 22 and Scenic 309 Byway in the Arkansas River Valley.
Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival (at the top of Mount Magazine).
www.paris-ar.com /html/tourism.html   (510 words)

  
 Mt. Magazine International Butterfly Festival
Magazine has an extraordinary richness of butterfly species.
Magazine is one of the country's biological "hot spots," a living butterfly "Eden."
Magazine is also the site of Arkansas' newest state park.
www.butterflyfestival.com   (350 words)

  
 Mount Aloysius Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
“Mount Aloysius College was closer than other area schools and I preferred a smaller campus setting.” she said.
When I decided to continue for my bachelor’s degree, Mount Aloysius was willing to work with my schedule and accommodate my needs because I still had a full-time job and two children to take care of in Altoona.
In her current role, she credits Mount Aloysius with giving her a well-rounded education.
www.mtaloy.edu /Magazine/DenBleyker.htm   (644 words)

  
 Mount Magazine and Mount Nebo State Park have favorite hang gliding launches
MOUNT MAGAZINE - Hang gliders have flocked to Arkansas's highest point for many years.
MOUNT NEBO - Hang gliding is a popular activity from two launch sites atop 1,350-foot Mount Nebo: Sunrise Point at the east end of the mountain and an area behind the park visitor center.
There are two hang gliding events held annually at the park providing wind and weather allow: a spring fly-in during late April and a summer fly-in near the end of August.
www.adventurestateparks.com /hang-gliding   (184 words)

  
 Magazine Racks, Floor Standing Magazine Racks, Wall Mount Magazine Racks
All of our wood magazine racks are available with either an oak veneer or mahogany finish.
These magazine racks / literature racks will make a fine addition to any waiting room, office or conference room.
We also offer a wide variety of clear plastic wall mount magazine and brochure racks.
www.plasticfab.com /magazine_floor_racks_wood.htm   (285 words)

  
 Mt. Magazine State Park - The Newest Arkansas State Park
Officially opened in the Spring of 2002, Mt. Magazine State Park was the culmination of many years of hard work by State and County officials, as well as many private, concerned individuals and groups.
The Mission of Mount Magazine State Park is to enhance the quality of life in west central Arkansas by promoting, interpreting and managing this park's natural and cultural resources.
To provide quality educational opportunities relating to the natural aspects of the park, specifically the unique geological formation of Mount Magazine and the resulting flora and fauna.
www.booneville.com /Mt.Mag-Park.htm   (748 words)

  
 Mount Fuji @ National Geographic Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was 25 years since I climbed Mount Fuji the first time, and my 51-year-old knees reminded me, painfully, of the old saying: Only a fool climbs Fuji twice.
Although Mount Fuji appears to be a single, almost perfectly symmetrical cone, inside it is far more complex than you might guess.
This site explains how Mount Fuji was formed, gives some history about the mountain’s name, and offers guidelines for those thinking about climbing to the top.
magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0208/feature3   (1015 words)

  
 Clarksville Arkansas Chamber News
The occasion was the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mount Magazine State Park lodge and cabins.
Mount Magazine is renowned for its rare species of plants.
Mount Nebo is the place to be to view the wonders of the night sky.
www.arvtripeaks.com /tripeakaug04   (2805 words)

  
 Mount Carmel Health System - Columbus, Ohio Hospitals: Mount Carmel East Hospital, Mount Carmel West Hospital, & Mount ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mount Carmel is committed to providing you with the best available healthcare.
This new service from Mount Carmel is quick and easy and gives you the option of using a credit card or checking account.
Mount Carmel helps women make this live-saving connection with our Woman’s Heart...
www.mountcarmelhealth.com   (432 words)

  
 Guns Magazine: Lite Mount Technologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lite Mount Technologies has come up with a way to neatly and cleanly bolt on an accessory mount that will bold a high-intensity light and, if you're so inclined, a laser sighting device to boot.
Machined from a solid piece of 6061 T-6 aluminum, the mounts are of obvious quality and impeccably machined, showing careful attention to detail.
Made for shotguns with extended magazine tubes, such as Remington 870s, 1100s, Mossberg 500s and the like, they are easy to install and offer a quick fix for that problem of tactical lighting.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_9_46/ai_64259202   (312 words)

  
 TheHometownChannel.com - News - New Mount Magazine Lodge Nearly Complete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MOUNT MAGAZINE, Ark. -- A project hidden away atop Mount Magazine was turning into quite a vacation spot on Thursday, according to 40/29's Beth Burnett.
The new Mount Magazine Lodge and Cabins are almost complete more than one year after construction began.
Officials expect the Mount Magazine Lodge and Cabins to open in spring 2006.
www.thehometownchannel.com /news/4509991/detail.html   (324 words)

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