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Butterfield Hiking Trail

Local route24 km · 15 miModerate · 4/10Best Feb–May, Oct–Nov

Next nearby hike: Yellow Rock Trail 0.2 mi · 0.3 kmExplore Ozark-St. Francis National Forest →

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Best time to hike

Best months: Feb–May, Oct–Nov · highs 11–25 °C (52–77 °F)

  1. J8°-1°82
  2. F11°1°88
  3. M16°5°108
  4. A21°10°126
  5. M25°15°163
  6. J29°20°133
  7. J31°22°101
  8. A31°22°96
  9. S27°18°118
  10. O21°12°121
  11. N15°6°116
  12. D9°1°84

Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.

How we pick months

Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.

Trail facts

Difficulty
Moderate (4/10) (mountain_hiking (T2) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
Mapped length
24 km · 15 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
Nearest town
16 km S of West Fork (Washington County, Arkansas) · GeoNames
Park or forest
Ozark-St. Francis National Forest
Connects to
Fossil Flats Mountain Bike Trail (at its start or end)
Best months
Feb–May, Oct–Nov
Country
United States of America
Region
Arkansas
Continent
North America
Route type
Local route
Shape
Loop (OSM roundtrip=yes)
SAC scale (OSM)
mountain hiking
Route centre
35.7612, -94.2618
Route start
35.7838, -94.2442
OpenStreetMap
relation 15690459
How it’s scored

Moderate (4/10). Official rating: mountain_hiking (T2) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).

A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm

Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.

Nearest trails

distance from the trail start

Yellow Rock Trail

0.2 mi · 0.3 km · Ozark-St. Francis National Forest

Bradford East Outer Loop

2.9 mi · 4.7 km · Ozark-St. Francis National Forest

Bradford Easy Loop

4.5 mi · 7.2 km · Ozark-St. Francis National Forest

Easy Pine Outer Loop West

5.9 mi · 9.5 km · Ozark-St. Francis National Forest

West Outer Loop

7 mi · 11 km · Ozark-St. Francis National Forest

Proposed Boston Mountain Trail

9 mi · 14 km · Ozark-St. Francis National Forest

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