27px, we want 27. Please register or login . Long ridges called Pine Mountain and Rich Mountain, with a high point of approximately 2,600 feet, shelter this Wilderness, and on Pine Mountain the Kiamichi River is born. Unusual for Oklahoma, you'll find groves of beech along the Kiamichi's headwaters, giving way to a dense forest of pine and hardwoods. The ridges are steep and the valleys below are relatively flat but narrow.
Several creeks drain the area, often spilling over miniature and picturesque waterfalls.
The western boundary lies along the Kiamichi Electric powerline, and the southwestern boundary begins at a parking lot on Pashubbe Creek where the Ouachita National Recreation Trail has a trailhead. This trail stretches nearly 200 miles from Talihina, OK, to Hot Springs, AR, and here follows the Upper Kiamichi River all the way across the Wilderness to a second trailhead at Stateline Monument. This is the only maintained trail in the area, and you should plan on wet feet since it crosses through the river several times. Oklahoma holds a total of about 57 miles of the Ouachita Trail. The Wilderness may be accessed off State Highway 63 near the southern boundary, and a parking lot exists near the southeastern corner where Horsepen Creek flows out of the area.