Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas
November 17, 2007
From the Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain photo gallery.
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June 2009
Tip: Defacing anything in the nation’s national parks is against the law and carry penalties if caught.
Beyond that, it’s just wrong and irresponsible.
Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
May 25, 2009
From the Mammoth Cave National Park photo gallery.
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Lake Fort Smith State Park, Arkansas
October 8, 2008
From the Lake Fort Smith State Park photo gallery.
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Artists’ Paintpots trail
From the Yellowstone National Park photo gallery:
Around the Upper Loop, September 13, 2007
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Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
New Entrance tour
May 24, 2009
From the Mammoth Cave National Parl photo gallery.
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(Crowley’s Ridge State Park photo gallery.)
For the last night of our May 2009 trip, we stopped in northeast Arkansas at Crowley’s Ridge State Park.
Crowley’s Ridge rises 100 to 200 feet above the river plains of eastern Arkansas. A narrow arc of rolling hills, it extends from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, down to the Mississippi River in southeast Arkansas at Helena.
The ridge was named for a War of 1812 soldier, Benjamin F. Crowley, whose war land grant was the first settlement in the area.
The park is located near Paragould in Green County at Benjamin Crowley’s original homesite and is one of the original six Arkansas state parks. Construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps began in 1933.
While our stay was just for one night, we did have the opportunity for a couple of good walks and a few pictures in the evening and the next morning before we left. However, as a result of heavy rain, our evening plans for cooking outside didn’t pan out.
In February 2009, Crowley’s Ridge, along with a wide section of Arkansas, Missouri, and Kentucky, experienced a damaging ice storm. Evidence of the storm can still be seen in the ragged appearance from broken and missing branches of many trees in the park and along hundreds of miles of the route we traveled on May 26 and 27.
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Dining Room at Lake Yellowstone Hotel
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
From the Yellowstone National Park photo gallery:
Around the Lower Loop, September 15, 2007
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Lake Fort Smith State Park, Arkansas, October 23, 2008
Located in a wooded valley in the Boston Mountains of the Arkansas Ozarks, the 259 acre Lake Fort Smith State Park reopened in the late Spring of 2008 four miles north of its original location, which was closed in early January, 2002. (more information on Lake Fort Smith State Park)
From the Lake Fort Smith photo gallery
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My sites are all back, in case anyone noticed the following message:
This is the second time that the account has been suspended.
Apparently, something in the database gets corrupted and then there is a bit of extra traffic and my account uses up more than it’s share of the server availability.
This is the only problem that I’ve had with Bluehost in recent months. Both times the technical service folks were very helpful. This time, one of the techs suggested a couple of WordPress plugins that would 1) help reduce the loading if, by some odd chance I got a surge of traffic, and 2) keep some of the spambots from even getting to the page.
I’m not going to implement them tonight and I do have more than just this blog to install them on. I’ll post more about the plugins on Exit78 after I’ve looked at them and installed them.
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Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas, January 6, 2007
Cedar Falls Trail (2 miles, 2 hours to the falls and back) is the most popular trail in the park. The trail begins through the Mather Lodge breezeway and returns to the same point. Rated as moderate to strenuous, in its first half mile, this hiking trail descends over 200 feet into Cedar Creek Canyon over switchbacks and steps cut from rock by the CCC over 65 years ago. Those considering taking this trail should take into consideration that the trail returns back up the same steps and switchbacks. The park staff recommends shoes and boots that provide good ankle support and a firm grip and only those in good shape should take this hike. The last half mile follows Cedar Creek to one of the state’s most impressive sights, Cedar Falls, which cascades more that 90 into the canyon. During the wet times of the year, the flow over the falls can be very spectacular, often dwindling to a trickle in the hottest and driest part of the year. Cedar Creek was added to the register of Arkansas Natural Areas in 1977. (Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain.)
From the Petit Jean State Park photo gallery
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