Rattle Snake Hollow

White Rock Wilderness Area

Friday

On Friday we set up camp in Rattlesnake hollow just above rattlesnake falls. the road in was a little rough. We actually had to drive over a couple trees to get to our spot. There are plenty of other wilderness spots here but this one is the most private and you can hear the waterfall from camp. Also if you are not into wilderness camping there are camp sites located on top of white rock mountain and at shores lake. The sun set views from white rock mountain are some of the best around but we didn't check them out this trip because there were no clouds in the sky to make it pretty.

Saturday

On Saturday Morning after breakfast we packed a lunch and drove down the road to the first of two planned hikes for the day. (As rough as the road was it might have been better to have hiked down the creek to hurricane creek and follow it up to Dockery gap. From camp that hike would have been about 4 miles. Then we could have driven to the far away hikes on our way out on Sunday which would have saved a couple trips down the rough jeep road.) Our first hike was to White Rock Cascade and White  Rock Falls. This was an easy hike on the Shores Lake Trail about three mile round trip. Although the weather was perfect for camping, it was a little too sunny for waterfall photography.  After lunch we drove a couple miles further down the road to the Ozark Highland Trail. From the trail head this hike was also about three miles round trip. We hiked down to spirit creek and saw the small falls there and followed the creek up stream to a series of beautiful water falls coming off a side drainage. There was a large camp site just above spirit creek that would be great for a backpacking trip. Once again there were no clouds in the sky so we didn't stop at the mountain for a sunset shot.

                                                                        Sunday

On Sunday Morning we got up and one last look at rattlesnake falls before taking down camp and heading out. Our hike today was actually from the same parking spot at the Ozark Highland Trail as yesterday. (Another reason we should have done Dockery Gap yesterday and saved all the others for today.) We hiked another three miles round trip to what would have been a nice water fall at the base of an old train tressel. Had there been more water there were also a couple other places that looked like they would have been pretty waterfalls.  But it was a beautiful day for a hike so I have no complaints. On the way home we drove Hwy 23 hoping to get some shots of the falls there but there wasn't any water so we just kept on going.