Arkansas Fall Colors

littlemo wrote:
This area of Arkansas is beautiful year round but I think Fall is the best.
Dryfly 01 you are fortunate to be near there for easy weekend trips.

Wandering Dawgs. Can't take credit for photos but the takers are awesome photographers!

Personally I love the campgrounds at Blanchard Springs Caverns but they don't have hookups. The CG is so pleasantly located along Sylamore Creek and lots of places to walk and fish and see the caves and the waterfalls.


Buffalo Point has hookups.Tyler Bend also has hookups until November.

Lots more places in the area without hookups.

I'm familiar with all of those from my pre-RV days. We are really loving this RV thing. As I write this, we are at a private park, Sylamore Creek Camp. We set up here last Wednesday and I've been working from here and taking a few days off. We wanted hook-up for this trip. I had oral surgery yesterday in Harrison, and decided to stay here to recuperate instead of lying on the couch at the stick house, watching TV. This is right at the concfluance of the White River and Crooked Creek, 200 yards up Hwy 14, towards the town of Fifty-Six. Once I get a bit more comfortable with dry camping, we' ll unleash this thing and camp anywhere we can. You're right. We are very fortunate to be here. There is so much, so close. I need "close" for now, since I'm towing with a 1/2 ton Yukon, and this this weighs almost as much, dry, as the capacity of my TV.. I'm looking for a 3/4 ton diesel so we can go where we want. Until then, this does not suck at all.

Maybe we'll cross paths. I hope we do.

And, wanderingdawgs is right, the photos are beautiful.

This area of Arkansas is beautiful year round but I think Fall is the best.
Dryfly 01 you are fortunate to be near there for easy weekend trips.

Wandering Dawgs. Can't take credit for photos but the takers are awesome photographers!

Personally I love the campgrounds at Blanchard Springs Caverns but they don't have hookups. The CG is so pleasantly located along Sylamore Creek and lots of places to walk and fish and see the caves and the waterfalls.


Buffalo Point has hookups.Tyler Bend also has hookups until November.

Lots more places in the area without hookups.

Littlemo, thanks for all the links! Will be traveling through Arkansas in mid October. I have just added a few more "must see" places to my list! Your photos are beautiful!

Littlemo,
Where do you recommend to stay?

Buffalo River Area

Fall foliage in the Ozarks

Trails No Fall color in these pictures but you can imagine what it would look like in the Fall.

Photos

One of top 10 for Fall foliage.

Commercial CG
Forest CG

Might see some of these too!

Here…..Bruce

We stayed at Lake Dardanelle SP (Russellville, AR) as a base camp and drove the truck to explore Jean Petit, Mt. Nebo and Mt. Magazine. That worked out nice. They have full hookups. It is a nice park! If you stay there make sure to drive Skyline Drive at night for a nice peak between the houses at the town below.It is a dry county. We were there the last week in Oct. 2013 nice colors.

Mount Magazine State Park is also very nice with lots of color but it is usually a week or two earlier than the rest of the state. Normal AR peak is around the first of November.

If you really want to hit an unknown spot go to exit 24 off I-40, go north on hwy 215 for 16 miles to Shores Lake. It is a small forest service lake and campground. Paved roads all the way to the campground. They have some sites with electric but you would need to get there in the middle of the week to get one as they are not reservable.

This is the road down to the campground taken around the first of November last year.

We stayed at Petit Jean SP in August. Very nice park and CG with lot of space between sites. They have FHUs on many sites. We want to go back in the fall. If you go, don't miss visiting WinRock for a tour and great meal.