We hiked at the Collinsville Lake trails for the first time on Saturday!
We followed all the outside trails for a big loop.
The kids all seemed to enjoy it and it smelled amazing from all the flowers right now.
I liked that the trails were mostly wide enough that you did not have to brush up against plants and worry about ticks as much.
The kids found a turtle laying eggs.

I really enjoyed this hike!
Has anyone else checked this one out yet?

Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge.
I love the boardwalk trail, so pretty.

And the whole walk smelled like honeysuckle this time!






We are pretty loud so we usually scare the animals away before we see them.




We think he was either a water snake or a cottonmouth.
Of course all four of my other kids walked right by him without seeing him…
I don’t know if you can tell but in the above pic we were getting rained on.

It is kind of a parkour obstacle course.

My oldest was the only one tall enough to reach the top.













