Richland Creek

We had not been to Richland Creek in years. When we were nearly there Jeff mentions that there had been a landslide in the Spring of 2008. He hoped that the road was open. WHAT.. your telling me NOW! We have been on the road for hours, and your telling me now.
Well here is the South road into the campground.


I didn't get pictures of the signs on the road that stated the campgrounds were closed until further notice.
So we look at our handy dandy Topo Map of Arkansas. We saw another campground at the point where the Buffalo runs into Richland Creek. So we drive for about an hour. Apparently, we missed the turn to the other campground and end up at the North side of the Richland Creek area. Cool, huh? This is what we found.

Did that keep us from camping. Nah, we found a way to drive around the barrier and camp anyway. The campground looked fine.

Well this was short lived. The next morning the boss of the Rangers came by with his son and said that the Rangers would be by later giving tickets to campers in the campground. Thankfully we were not the only violators. So we quickly packed up and moved. Not what you want to do first thing in the morning.
The next site was not quite as cozy as you will see. Notice in the picture above it is grassy and flat. Our new site was rocky and on a slight slope.


We had a great time fishing and watching the weather change over the mountain. It rained off and on Saturday.

Jeff and one of his small mouth bass. This is his favorite fish to catch.

Adam caught a couple of fish too.


Big spooky black clouds moving in.


Kids swimming in the freezing cold water.

Jeff caught a big crawfish and boiled it. We even served it on a silver platter.

We had planned on staying until Monday, but the weather got worse. Sunday morning it rained and and rained. We got up and were packed and outta there by 8:10am. It rained nearly all the way home (4-5 hours of driving).

Now we are in the planning stages for our trip to Wyoming.