Chuck's Adventures: Tanyard Creek Nature Trail

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Tanyard Creek Nature Trail

After visiting the Wal-Mart Museum, we hiked the Tanyard Creek Nature Trail in Bella Vista, Arkansas, north of Bentonville. The trail was built and is maintained by volunteers in an outstanding natural area featuring limestone cliffs and 2 creeks. Over 200 signposts name and describe flora and geologic features as you traverse the nearly 3 miles of trails, crossing the creeks several times.

Water spilling out of Windsor Lake Dam creates this rushing waterfall...

... and cascades. Benches are scattered along the trail, including one to view the waterfall and cascades.

A swinging suspension bridge is also a highlight of the hike.

After the hike, we returned home and took further advantage of the 57 degree sunny day with a 45 minute bike ride to start getting the biking muscles in shape for the season.

No comments:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

*******************************************

Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.

============================
Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

============================
Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
============================
The older I get, the better I was!
============================
Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
============================
I want to die young at an advanced age.
============================
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
============================
The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

============================

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
==========================