Spring Storms

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Next Up: Van Buren, MO and Quincy, IL and then Chicagoland!


In a rare circumstance on our RV journey, we stayed at a public RV campground in Bull Shoals, AR.  The campground was clean and spacious.  And the area is absolutely lovely.

Our site was right along the White River.

Johnny is checking out the river just down the steps from our site.

Unfortunately, there were thunderstorms the first couple of days we were there.  All of my photos are from the final sunny, but cold, day.  So we went to a movie and watched some basketball during all of the rain.   We also toured the Visitor Center of the State Park. There we learned about all of the flooding between 1915 and 1927 that prompted the Corps of Engineers to build the Bull Shoals Dam (and several others along the White River)) which was completed in 1951.

The Dam created Bull Shoals Lake which, combined with the White River, makes this a popular fishing location.

Here is another nice photo of the River from high atop the Dam.  We were warned at the State Park that an alarm goes off when the dam opens and the river water starts to go up. Basically so people fishing in the river are aware.

The Visitor Center also claimed that "nothing says the Ozarks like the johnboat" which are used for the tremendous amount of fishing done here.  The johnboat has a flat bottom so you can fish in shallow water.

On our last day in Bull Shoals, we checked out the Big Spring just a few yards from our site at the State Park.  The water seeps through the rocks and then flows into the White River.

There was a nice sitting area just above the Spring.

We were finally able to take a hike through the woods!

The trail was slightly uphill - not too strenuous.

We found ourselves on top of a bluff overlooking the river.

On our walk down we crossed this little stream.

It's not camping without a camp fire.  Because the weather was chilly - it was going to be 40 once the sun went down - we had our fire in the late afternoon.  A nice ending to our day.