Showing posts with label Petit Jean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petit Jean. Show all posts

Monday, April 02, 2012

Petit Jean

We made a daytrip to Petit Jean State Park, the first state park in Arkansas and one of my favorites. It was Leon's first time to view the Arkansas River Valley from atop the mountain.



There are lots of hiking trails but since it was a hot day we chose the shorter ones; such as, this hike to across the turtle rocks to the rock house.


There was a also a nice short hike down to the Cedar Falls overlook. The last time I camped here I made the steep hike down to the base of the falls. With all the recent rain, there was quite a good volume of water flowing.


The woods were such a lush spring green as seen in this view from the rock house.