Category: News
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Spring ’25 Wrap-up
The Spring ’25 work session was a very productive one. We had 8 volunteers, with 5 working most or all of the week and 2 first-timers. We completed all but one tread repair project that we noted during our 2023 traverse of the trail plus a couple new ones, removed many new obstructions, and destroyed…
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Fall ’24 results
We had 7 volunteers for this session, which was shortened to 4 days. We had dry weather for the duration, though the overly-warm afternoons chased us out of the woods and onto the porch to sip cold beverages. During 2 evenings we saw elk across the field from the ranch house and heard bugling occasionally…
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Spring ’24 results
We had 7 volunteers contribute 225 volunteer hours while clearing almost all major obstacles from 23 miles of the BRT between Steel Creek and Pruitt. We left 2 large trees that must be crawled under and 2 that must be detoured around. Everything else was removed or at least reduced to an easy step-over. We…
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Fall ’23 Summary
The Fall ’23 work session for Ken’s Krew has been completed and was a great success. We had 12 volunteers in all, including 6 first-timers, and logged 291 hours. Rather than focusing on tread rehabilitation as first planned, we turned to simply getting the trail opened up – clearing a large amount of downfall from…
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Spring ’23 Wrap-up
Things got off to a wet start with our first work day being rained-out. The four of us at camp decided to do a road trip to visit Ken Smith in Fayetteville. He was pretty glad to get out and go to lunch with us, and is as mischievous as ever. Turnout was decent, with…
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Fall ’22 Wrap-up
Ken’s Krew’s fall ’22 work ended Wednesday October 26th. The weather was mostly good with Tuesday as the only rain-out. We had 3-5 people most of the time with 2 newcomers and logged about 143 volunteer hours. A couple sections of the BRT/OHT that we’ve maintained in the past were recently adopted so we had…
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Cutting the Ribbon for Phase 3
An April 25 ribbon-cutting ceremony at Grinders Ferry commemorated the opening of Phase 3 of the BRT – the 28-mile segment between US-65 and AR-14. Present were representatives of BNR, Ozark Society, Ken’s Krew, Ozark Highlands Trail Association, and Searcy County Chamber of Commerce. Cutting the ribbon are Ken Smith, BNR Superintendent Mark Foust, and…
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“First River: How Arkansas Saved a National Treasure”
The new documentary First River: How Arkansas Saved a National Treasure can now be streamed or downloaded. This ultimately leads to Vimeo so if you have that app on your TV, Roku, etc… you can find it that way too. The film crew was with us for a day in March ’21 as we worked…
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March 2022 summary
Another semi-annual work session for Ken’s Krew is complete. We had 8 people at the peak and our big projects were lopping 6.5 miles of trail from Brush Creek to Little Rocky Creek (including removal of some major tangles of down trees), building a few more stairs in Xmas Hollow, delivering a major beat-down to…
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Phase 3 complete
What I am retroactively calling “Phase 3” – the segment between US65 at Tyler Bend and AR14 at Dillard’s Ferry – was completed April 1 2021. The construction of the final 1/4-mile of trail in the vicinity of Little Rocky Creek (between Red Bluff Rd and South Maumee Rd) caps a project begun in October…
Buffalo River Trail Crew 