I was totally blown away on this trip and fell in love with this beautiful park.
Pretty sure the kids favorite was the Bear Cave Trail at Petit Jean State Park.
It has lots of rocks and is short, all things they like.
They were less enthusiastic when they found out they had to hike back also and could not take the “short way” back. After a lot of steps going up and down we did make it back though.
I have loved the hiking on a previous trip so I know we just chose the wrong hike at the wrong time.
We started out on the Rim Trail which is one that was a favorite on a previous trip. The kids heard it was longer and said they wanted to do the hike down to the spring.But this was the trip down…
Ha!
Mount Magazine at sunset!