Beaver Lake, AR: Another Beautiful Lake by the US Army COE

Arrived today at Beaver Lake just outside Rogers, Arkansas. Never heard of Rogers? How about Bentonville? Bentonville is headquarters for the much loved & much hated WalMart. You can't tell where Bentonville ends and Rogers begins without a map or road signs.

Beaver Lake was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers and completed in the mid-60's. The US Army COE built a lot of lakes in the South with the goal of controlling the floods that occurred regularly in the South.

This lake is spectacular with probably a dozen campgrounds and several marinas. I'll have to post a picture later since we went exploring right after setting up the RV and neglected to grab the camera from the charger.

The drive from Hot Springs was uneventful. We had planned to take a road called scenic 7 from Hot Springs however just as we left our Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) alarm alerted us to one of the tires having only 80 psi. We run 120 psi in our tires and you can only get that kind of pressure at a truck stop so we had to change our route to the interstates.

Not a bad thing just not as scenic as some other roads. And the northwest portion of Arkansas is very scenic. I mentioned the Buffalo National River previously; it's a very special place. And the area we drove through looked very rugged. Well as rugged as you can look with an interstate slicing through pristine wilderness.

Taking the interstate did mean that we got to go right by Toad Suck. Don't know the whole story however the name just sticks with you, you know?

Travel days are always stressful. I mean our normal days are pretty stress-free. We do what we want when we want. And sometimes that's doing nothing at all except reading & relaxing here in camp. On travel days we have to pack up the RV, venture out of our carefully constructed seclusion into the 'real world' or at least onto the real world's roads & interstates with the RV & tow car. Occasionally we go somewhere we have been before but more typically we have to navigate to someplace we've never been to previously.

We have our maps, our GPS, and our notes. Most of the time we are pleased with our selected campground; occasionally it is not what we had hoped for. When that happens we tend to spend one night and then hit the road.

Just to give you an idea of Beaver Lake's beauty: we will be here nearly two weeks! Now that is nice. Pictures to follow later...

See ya!