Lake Fort Smith State Park Mountainburg

If there is such a thing as 'love at first hike', then that's what happened to me on my first real hiking experience. Growing up as an only child on a farm, my playmates were my dogs, a dozen or so laying hens, a half dozen farm cats and some unlucky crawdads. My dogs and I would walk down to the creek and to the branch where my crawdad hole was, …

... nbsp; We took this road from Hot Springs to Fort Smith.  But before we reached Fort Smith we took a little detour to Lake Fort Smith State Park.  We were very glad that we did. It would have been $30.00 to camp here with electricity, water and ...