St. Louis Family Trip
In late-May, we spent a few days in St. Louis with the kids and grandkids. We had a great time, and wanted to share a little about the places that we visited so that it may help with your next trip there.
Hawn State Park & Pickle Springs Natural Area
Hawn State Park has been on our list of places to visit for quite some time. However, it has always proved to be about impossible to get camping reservations there. So, when the State Parks opened up their reservation system in 2020 to allow reservations for a year out, we jumped on the opportunity to finally get reservations at Hawn…
Devil’s Den State Park - 2020 Vacation Finale
We chose to stay at Devil’s Den State Park for both weekends of our 2020 vacation. The location was conveniently located about halfway to the Lake Ouachita and Hot Springs areas from our house, and was a short drive from Natural Falls State Park. We had also heard good things about this park…
Lake Ouachita State Park - 2020 Vacation pt2
After our first weekend of vacation was finished, we packed up and headed toward the middle of Arkansas. Our destination for the next five nights would be Lake Ouachita State Park. We had never explored that area of Arkansas, and we were looking forward to it…
Hawker Point Campground - Stockton Lake, MO
Over the weekend of July 24-26, 2020, we took our grandson camping at Hawker Point Campground, on Stockton Lake. This is a Corps of Engineers campground that we have stayed at before, but it had been a couple years since we had…
Finger Lakes State Park - Family Camping Weekend
In early July, we spent a weekend at Finger Lakes State Park, near Columbia, MO. We had never visited this park, and all we knew about it is that is catered to off-road vehicles, and had several areas for activities revolving around those…
Crabtree Cove Campground - Stockton, MO
We took a weekend trip in late June and headed down to the Crabtree Cove campground on Stockton Lake. It had been over a year since we had last camped at Stockton, due to the flooding that the area experienced in 2019. This was also the first time that we had camped at this lake in a campground other than Hawker Point.
Weekend trip to Indian Creek Campground - Garfield, AR
Indian Creek Campground is probably one of our favorites on Beaver Lake. We have stayed here twice now, and both times has been an enjoyable experience. The park only has 33 sites, so it stays pretty quiet. On this trip, we were in site #24, and on the previous trip, we were in #23.
Van Meter State Park weekend
Van Meter State Park is a special place for me. As a child, we would take day trips down to the park to hike the trails and enjoy the outdoors. Trips such as these helped foster the love for hiking and the outdoors that I have today. Strangely enough, since Tammy and I met, we have never returned to Van Meter. There have been several times that we have considered it as a weekend camping location, but every time we chose another option. This past weekend we finally made it back to the park that I remember so fondly.