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Colors Just Starting To Show Along Cecil Creel - Oct 10, 2023
Updated October 23, 2023
 October 23, 2023
Finally another update! Summer has passed and fall is rapidly giving way to cooler weather. Fall is my favorite time of the year. The colors are starting to change but we have not had a lot of rain so I am not expecting a spectacular display this year. I have updated The Ozark Society page to reflect the new dangers to the river. We had a chance to get out for a trip down to the park. It was our second attempt to cross Cecil Creek. It was just Another Rainey Day.

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Old Friends
Situated mainly within three states, the 60,000 square mile Ozark Plateau stretches from eastern Oklahoma to southern Missouri to northern Arkansas. The Ozark Mountains, rising to a height of 2,560 feet in Arkansas' Boston Mountains, represent the largest area of highlands between the Appalachians and the Rockies. These rolling hills and low mountains offer rugged terrain, eroded by water from springs and rivers flowing on a journey to the Mississippi River.

Sparsely populated, the Ozark region is unknown to many people, conjuring up scenes of pioneer cabins among the vast hardwood tree cover, where life takes on a slower pace. It is indeed a place where you can get glimpses of an earlier way of life, but it also holds many beautiful, scenic discoveries within its rolling landscape.

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