Cossatot River

The Cossatot River is a river in the U.S. state Arkansas.Cossatot is an Indian word for "skull crusher". The Cossatot is known as an extremely difficult (class II - IV+) whitewater stream to canoeists and kayakers and a section at Cossatot Falls in Howard County, Arkansas has been called "the most challenging section of whitewater between the Smokies and the Rockies". An 11-mile (18 km) section including Cossatot Falls is designated as the Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area.
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Ouachita National Forest
Federal Building
Post Office Box 1270
Hot Springs, Arkansas 71902

Arkansas State Parks Department
One Capitol Mall, 4A-900
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Little Rock District
Post Office Box 867
Little Rock, Arkansas 72203
Designated Reach: April 22, 1992, and February 2, 1994. The segment of the Cossatot River from the confluence with Mine Creek in Polk County, near the town of Shady, Arkansas, downstream to Duchett's Ford, 4.6-miles below the State Highway 4 Bridge. Also, the segment of Brushy Creek from approximately 4.4 miles upstream of the Ouachita National Forest boundary just north of State Highway 246 to its confluence with the Cossatot River in the Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area in Polk County.
Classification/Mileage: Scenic -- 26.6 miles; Recreational -- 4.2 miles; Total -- 30.8 miles.
Flowing south from the Ouachitna Mountains, the Cossatot River is considered one of the best whitewater floating rivers in Arkansas, with class V rapids at Cossatot Falls.