Photos of Arkansas

I had spent so much time up on the upper Buffalo river that I felt it would be a good thing to check into some of the rest of the Ozarks. I had not traveled up Hwy 65 yet so I decided to head up to the Sylamore Creek/Gunner Pool area. Leaving Little Rock, on Saturday the 1st of November, I headed up to Conway, then hit 65 and stayed on it to Marshall, and then headed to the Rush turn off on Hwy 27 & 14. As soon as I was through Clinton, the colors were spectacular, the best I had seen year to date. These were the colors I had been trying to locate on the Buffalo, with all the trees turning at once giving the great multiple color arrays. Once I crossed the Buffalo River on Hwy 14, the colors started to get drab again and by the time I got to Rush, the colors were almost nonexistent. I turned around and headed back down Hwy 14 to where it joins with Hwy 27. Here I stayed on 14 headed towards Mountain View.

This is a great drive that I had forgotten over the years. You cross over several small creeks and drop down into some very pretty valleys before finally climbing up to the high ridge line above Syalmore creek. There are several great campgrounds in this part of the state, Barkshed, Gunner Pool, and the Blanchard Springs Campground. I prefer Gunner Pool over the others, but most of the year it’s hard to get a campsite due to the crowds. I arrived late in the day, and found the campground almost empty and was able to get a spot down by Gunner Pool. The colors all the way down to the campground were as good as the ones I had seen earlier on Hwy 65.
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