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Leaving Arkansas
Posted on Sunday Apr 22, 2012
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Oauchita mountains (really only hills) were beautiful! Everything was blooming and spring was in full force. Unfortunately the camp sites were "closed until spring." Since no one was around we camped at the mountain visits and hiked several of the trails. Lower down along the rivers there were some free camp sites, but the nearby farms sounds made it sound like it was feeding time at the zoo. Hounds, geese, cows, pigs were going nuts. Quite a weird scene to be camped by the river in the woods yet feel like you're in a farm-insane-asylum. I guess after being feed they all seemed to quite down because eventually the forest returned to normal.
The bonus was we road some of the BEST single track mountain bike trials right from our camp site!!
We also stopped at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Home of Bill Clinton and National Hot Springs Park. Excited to soak in some hot water with our sore biking muscles we strapped on our boots and hiked about 5 miles from the park's campground to the hot springs center.
Nice museum and everything, but no public hot springs?! They brag everywhere in the park about preserving the springs for everyone, not just the elite few and how this is one of the oldest protected areas in the USA from the 1800's. And for irony the campground doesn't even have hot showers! Something's wrong here. And all the private spring bath houses are expensive. So we got caught in a freezing rain storm, trudged all the way back to the campground and huddled in the RV with the heater going. Great. Some hot springs park. At least the hiking trails were nice.
Now we are in MISSISSIPPI looking for our next campground/trail/adventure!
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