{"id":2647,"slug":"mount-magazine-paris-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mount Magazine is Arkansas's roof — the 2,753-foot plateau that's the state's highest point, the mountain that had a town on it until the Depression and a lodge that burned in 1971. The state park opened in 1998; the new lodge is the park system's biggest investment.","The mountain was the resort — the hotels that served the railroad tourists, the CCC lodge that was the WPA's work, the town of Magazine that foundered. The butterflies are the draw now — 94 of the state's 134 species live on the plateau.","The mountain is still there — the lodge on the south bluff, the hang-gliding launch, the plateau that's the state's high point. The file keeps Mount Magazine: the town that was, the burned lodge, and the peak that's Arkansas's roof.","Mount Magazine is the archive's highpoint file — the state's highest, the lost town, and the plateau that's the park."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mount Magazine is the archive's highpoint file — Arkansas's highest, the Depression town, and the plateau that's the state park.","A mountain that's the highest keeps its plateau — the file's suggestion being that Magazine's hold is the height: the 2,753 feet, the butterflies, and the peak that's the state's roof."]}],"name":"Mount Magazine","aliases":[],"type":"NATURAL","type_label":"Natural","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","NATURAL_WONDER"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"Arkansas’s highest point—2,753 feet above the Arkansas River valley.","full_desc":"A natural site in Paris, Arkansas, Mount Magazine is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Arkansas’s highest point—2,753 feet above the Arkansas River valley. It sits in the archive under natural wonders and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Paris","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.290756,"lon":-93.734228,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"AR batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2197,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence on the bluff at dusk. Mount Magazine's reports travel the way outdoor lore does — by campfire, trailhead, and local warning. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mount Magazine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Magazine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The high point and the lodge are documented. The site's documented natural and human history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Mount Magazine' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mount Magazine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Magazine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Natural site; conditions vary seasonally—check the managing agency for access.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Mount Magazine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Magazine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Mount Magazine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Magazine","desc":"Highest point in Arkansas, United States","extract":"Mount Magazine, officially named Magazine Mountain, is the highest point of the U.S. Interior Highlands and the U.S. state of Arkansas, and is the site of Mount Magazine State Park. It is a flat-topped mountain or mesa capped by hard rock and rimmed by precipitous cliffs.  There are two summits atop the mountain: Signal Hill, which reaches 2,753 ft (839 m) and Mossback Ridge, which reaches 2,700 ft (823 m).\nMount Magazine is often called \"the highest point between the Alleghenies and the Rockies\" (there are mountains located in the Trans-Pecos region of far-west Texas which exceed Mount Magazine in elevation and prominence, although the Trans-Pecos region lies so far south of the Rockies, th","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/20131026_1521_Mount_Magazine.png/960px-20131026_1521_Mount_Magazine.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":89,"lat":35.1670162,"lon":-93.64472592},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}