Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Featuring a story about an art museum may seem unusual for an outdoors website, but Crystal Bridges is anything but typical for an art museum. Designed to blend into the 120 acres of wooded grounds on which it is built,…[more]

A handy and no-cost prescription for relaxing, for letting tensions, worries and headaches fade away, is to visit the Kenny Vernon Nature Trail at Bell slough Wildlife Management Area. It begins nearly in the shadow of busy Interstate 40, yet…[more]

Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro is set to celebrate two big milestones this year.  March 15th marks 40 years since the site’s creation as an Arkansas state park… and sometime soon, the 30,000th diamond found since the park’s…[more]

Winter may not be everybody’s favorite time of year, but many might be surprised to learn that trees are actually pretty sweet on it.

For about six weeks, from mid-January to the end of February, Mother Nature cooks…[more]

Looking back over the past 12 months, the year 2011 has been a successful one for the park visitors who have hunted for diamonds in the 37 ½-acre search area at Arkansas’s diamond site, the Crater of Diamonds State Park.…[more]

Spend a day learning how to cook winter comfort foods such as simple stews, ham and beans, cornbread, dried fruit cobblers, Ozark pudding and Skillet cake on Jan. 7 at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View. These dishes…[more]

Join the staff of the Randolph County Museum in Pocahontas for an “Old Time Christmas” on Dec. 1. Held in conjunction with the town’s annual Christmas parade, the evening is a fundraiser for the museum. Chili, soup and baked goods…[more]

Eureka Springs’ 64th annual Folk Fest is Nov. 4-5. On Friday night, enjoy music in the Barefoot Ballroom at the Basin Park Hotel. The cost is $10 in advance or $15 at the door. On Saturday, the Folk Parade rolls…[more]

Maples, gums, sumac and ash trees are taking the lead as leaf peeping season approaches in Arkansas, but in some drought-ridden areas, the usual reds and golds may be absent because trees shed leaves early to conserve water, according to…[more]

The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center is holding a special day of activities on Saturday, Oct. 22, to commemorate its 20th anniversary. The nature center first opened in October 1991. Its year-long anniversary celebration will…[more]