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Great Smoky Mountains NP, Deep Creek

Deep Creek

(Bryson City NC) The trail to find waterfalls, also paralleled Deep Creek for about a mile. It crossed over the stream via footbridges a couple of times. What a wonderful combination of water, rocks, and cascades it was! At one point, the trail was blocked by a crew that was cutting back shrubbery from the […]

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Big Spring

Big Spring

(Van Buren MO) Part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways … Big Spring boiled up, from the base of a limestone cliff, at a rate of 286 million gallons per day. Water temperatures in the spring remains about 55-58 degrees year round. A large, clear pond formed before it flowed into the Current River not […]

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Alley Spring Mill

Alley Spring & Mill

(Eminence MO) Part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways … Alley Spring was in a beautiful setting, and next to it was Alley Mill. The mill was restored nicely with the original machinery still inside that was used for processing the grain. It used rollers instead of grinding stones, and a submerged turbine rather than […]

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