We stayed at the Seminole Campground in Sequoyah State Park from the weekend before Christmas until Christmas Eve.
I tried to make the camper a bit more festive.
We were for in for a bit of surprise when we got there.
We were told that all trails were closed for the weekend for an open hunt.
I had already booked in advance and had no clue so it left me scrambling a bit to find things to do for two days.
Thankfully the nature center was open so we went there twice.
Since our main reason for staying at this park was to hike I was a bit disappointed and wished we had been told beforehand.
We filled our first full day with driving to the Sequoyah Bay State Park and driving to Muskogee to see Christmas lights.
Sequoyah Bay State Parks trail was very muddy and hard to find since the trail is not kept up well so we did not hike long.
The lights at Honor Heights Park were so pretty!
Great display!
I was excited to try to take some dramatic Christmas light pics with my kids…
Then I remembered who my kids are.
Pretty pics were not on their bucket list.
ha
I really liked making instant oatmeal in the camper.
After eating, we made another trip to the nature center and traveled to the J.T. Nickle Wildlife Preserve.
What a beautiful place to visit.
They have a scenic drive as well as hiking.
We had a beautiful spot on the lake.
Monday the trails opened and we decided to make up for lost time.
Our plan was to do a giant loop around the park but that proved difficult with several parts closed due to winter and flooding.
We did finally figure out how to park so that we could hike back to our camper to eat lunch and then hike a different way back to our vehicle for around 8 miles total.
I was smiling pretty big because our girls came running when they saw we were about to get a pic alone…
We had a few flooded parts of the trail we had to work around but we did mostly a loop.
The next morning we tried waffles for the first time in the camper and it was a huge hit!
We hiked the fossil trail for our last trail before heading home.
If is a great short trail if you have a fossil lover.
Do you camp for the holidays?
And then you proceed into the campground and are greeted by lots of information on flash flooding and escape plans…
They loved all the adventures to be had there and I loved the beauty.
If this campground was not already fantastic enough the kids and Nick found this amazing stream behind it.
There are no amenities and only vault toilets but it is such a beautiful place I could have stayed there for weeks.
We headed up North again but not as far.
I was pretty much done with steps after that.
We stopped at rest area on our way back south and ended up at a great beach to look for rocks.
The kids went crazy looking for rocks and we ended up picking up a book on agates to learn more.
Only our oldest had really shown an interest in rocks before that so I thought he would be the only one really excited but all the kids liked it.
We also ended up stopping at Beaver Bay Agate Shop and I highly recommend it if you have a rock collector and are in the area.