Mark Corder Digital Arts

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Tag: Trails & Hiking

  • No Horizon

    No Horizon

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    Taken from a lookout on Arkansas’s Mount Magazine.

  • Watch That Fall

    Watch That Fall

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    A hiker stops to admire the 100-foot (30-meter) Cedar Falls, the centerpiece of Petit Jean State Park.

  • Boxley Valley Relic

    Boxley Valley Relic

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    This is a familiar sight at the southern end of the Boxley Valley, along the Buffalo National River. It’s located next to the ruins of an old homestead, and was either a “root cellar” or perhaps a spring-house since there is a natural spring nearby.

  • LOViT WWT

    LOViT WWT

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    All those letters stand for the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail – and the Watchable Wildlife Trail section of it seen here. This section can be found off of Hwy 270 where you turn to go to Shangri La (map below). In addition to this wonderful elevated boardwalk, there are paved trails through the surrounding woods…

  • Bard Springs Dam

    Bard Springs Dam

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    Bard Springs is a very secluded spot deep in the Ouachita National Forest.

  • Another Birdhouse on DeGray

    Another Birdhouse on DeGray

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    You’ll pass by this scene while hiking the Green Heron Trail at Lake DeGray State Park. Chances are it’s still there – the one seen in this post is more iffy.

  • DeGray Birdhouse

    DeGray Birdhouse

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    A wildlife viewing blind in the state park on Lake DeGray that I always called “The Birdhouse”. (The bird is my partner Frank.) This was located on Green Heron Trail at the park, but storms tore the roof off of it and I was told they had no plans to fix it – so the…

  • Autumn Stroll at Iron Springs

    Autumn Stroll at Iron Springs

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    Original artwork.

  • Bear Cave Panorama

    Bear Cave Panorama

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    A panoramic view from the west side of the huge “Bear Cave” rock formation at Petit Jean State Park.

  • Breakfast in Boxley

    Breakfast in Boxley

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    Elk grazing near the Ponca Low Water Bridge in the Boxley Valley area of the Arkansas Ozarks.Taken in early May of 2010.

  • Ancient Seabed – Recent Falls

    Ancient Seabed – Recent Falls

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    Much of Arkansas’s strata is comprised of layers of sandstone that was once ancient seabeds – now hardened into stone and tossed at crazy angles due to mountain-building processes (orogeny). The weathered formations in the foreground of this photo show some of that – while the dam in the background is of much more recent…