Posts tagged #travel — Page 6

A Shawnee National Forest spillway in southern Illinois where river otters, beavers, and pileated woodpeckers appear with surprising regularity.

A series of cascading rock shelves on the Little Missouri River deep in Arkansas Ouachita National Forest — quiet, beautiful, and the start of the Eagle Rock Loop.

A 77-foot waterfall in the Oklahoma Ozarks, filming location for Where the Red Fern Grows, with lamp posts from the 1920s still lining the trail.

Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas is unlike any other national park — it sits inside a small city, and the park's thermal springs have drawn everyone from Native American tribes to 1930s gangsters to baseball players looking for a soak.

Missouri's widest continuously running waterfall outside Joplin — 163 feet across solid chert, a local favorite for fishing and swimming for generations.

Triple Falls in DuPont State Forest — three tiers of Little River waterfalls, a Hunger Games filming location, and some of the best hiking in western North Carolina.

The highest waterfall east of the Rockies at up to 411 feet, plunging through Nantahala National Forest on the NC-SC border.

A 14-foot waterfall in DuPont State Forest with one of the best swimming holes in western North Carolina — short hike, big payoff.

A 60-foot roadside waterfall in Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, NC — most accessible and most beautiful, no hike required.