Shady Lake is a real hidden-treasure in the Ouachita National Forest… If you draw a straight line between the city of Mena and the town of Daisy, Arkansas – you’ll find Shady Lake at about the half-way point between the two.

I decided to drive out that way early on the morning of my birthday – April 5th – in 2010, and had the whole place to myself when I took this shot of the little swimming and fishing lake that’s there. (The sign on the trashcan reads “Fish Scraps Only”.)

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