Many thanks to Bob Whitby for his article
Arkansas’ BUFFALO NATIONAL RIVER is one of the country’s last undammed rivers and a great American treasure.
I was maybe a mile into my first hike along the bluffs that surround and define the Buffalo National River when I turned to look back up the trail I’d just come down, noticing how it zigzagged up rock steps, through slippery mud, between two twisted oak trees and out of sight. Perhaps I’d been a little too dismissive of the terrain.
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