Blue Mountain Natural Area is located in the Fourche Mountains Ecoregion of the Ouachita Mountains at the boundary with the Arkansas Valley. Blue Mountain is the westernmost peak of the three mountains that make up the Maumelle Pinnacles chain, which includes Pinnacle Mountain and Rattlesnake Ridge. The natural area includes a diversity of natural communities, from the globally rare Ouachita Mountain Sandstone Outcrop Barrens community, to smaller sandstone glades and bluffs in a matrix of dry oak and oak-pine woodland. The natural area is part of a 12,000-acre conservation corridor made up of nearby Rattlesnake Ridge Natural Area, Central Arkansas Water/Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Maumelle Wildlife Management Area, Pinnacle Mountain State Park, and The Nature Conservancy's preserves.

 

Hunting is prohibited on this natural area.