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Day 1~Mount Nebo State Park, Dardanelle, AR

Mt. Nebo State Park, Dardanelle, Arkansas.

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To celebrate our 10yr anniversary, I rented a Cabin in Mt. Nebo State Park last weekend!

The road to get to the park is steep and very winding.

They do not recommend big trailers.

My boys thought it was a lot of fun, of course.

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I had been wanting to visit this NW section of Arkansas for a while now and jumped at the chance to stay there.

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I will do a separate post about the cabin but we were really happy with it!

We unloaded our stuff into the cabin so we could get a hike in before the sunset on Friday night.

We chose theĀ  Rim Trail as our first hike since you could access it from our cabin via the Summit Park Trail.

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This is still on the Summit Park trail.

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Lovers Leap and the start of the Rim Trail.

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We went down about halfway on the waterfall trail.

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On the way back up Nick saw another path so he went on it.

It ended up being a CCC path that met back up with the Rim Trail.

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CCC Trail

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It was a little rugged but lots of fun!

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This was definitely my favorite hike in the park!

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This trail had so many beautiful views!

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The boys do better when a trail is a little challenging so they really liked this one as well!

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After Sunset Point we hopped back on the Summit Park trail to get back to our cabin.

The loop we did ended up being 3.87 miles.

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We hung out at the Cabin for a bit, ate dinner, and headed back to Sunset Point.

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I am glad he brought his camera for some sunset pics.

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I brought their nature journals with us so they would have something to do while waiting for the sun to set.

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So beautiful!

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On the way back to our cabin it was pretty dark.

We saw a deer walking around below us!

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The boys also got their first taste of catching Fireflies!

I will share some more of our trip soon!

At the lake.

It is nice to have someone else in the family that wants to go somewhere just to take pictures.

The sight of my seven year old with a camera makes me happy.

photog waterfall lake littlephotog perfectionist hisfavorite ducks looking duckslake bullyGeese are big mean bully’s.

We had them when I was a kid and I have never liked them since.

These guys were chasing all the ducks away.

Cementing the fact that geese are evil…

photogdocs runing duckI could spend every evening watching the sunset on water.

So gorgeous.