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Richland Creek Hike and Update
The Big Bend on Richland Creek
I returned to Richland Creek last week. I had hoped that the USFS (U. S. Forest Service) had made some changes to Forest Service Road 1205 and reopened the campground, but sadly I found that this was not the case. It’s a sad thing to note that the U.S. can spend 16 billion to bail out GM (to no avail), but can’t take about 100K to fix up the road network to one of the most pristene parts of the Ozark National Forest and Richland Wilderness Area.
My last trip to Richland Creek was in late October 2008. I was hoping that all the water from the twin Hurricanes in August and early September would keep the water table high enough so that the waterfalls on Big and Long Devil’s creeks would stay up. Unfortunately, after the 1st week of September, Arkansas received no more rain and the creek didn’t hold.
Richland and it’s surrounding watersheds are to me some of the best unspoiled parts of Arkansas. Read the rest of this entry »