Oklahoma South-Eastern Region-State 10 of 49 on our Adventure

The time from Angler's RV Resort in Mountain View, AR to Tiny Town Cabins & RV Park in Broken Bow, OK is 5 h 11 min (279 miles) via AR-5 S and US-70 W. The drive takes you through Little Rock, AR. There are many roads under construction, but safe enough for RV’s. We were worried traversing the Ozarks, but the Google Maps route took us around the steep parts.

Broken Bow, OK is a nature lover's dream. As both the home of Beavers Bend & Hochatown State Park, Broken Bow Lake and the Mountain Fork River, this city in southeast Oklahoma is a popular destination for metropolitan Dallas and Fort Worth residents. The town has a Wal-Mart which is a nice gage to measure a towns success and size with respect to out reaching towns. The downtown portion of has beautiful wood carvings on the corner. There are a few shops, small restaurants, and boutiques. I recall downtown was 3 streets making up a few blocks.

There are stenciled metal signs with a Sequatch, aka Big Foot. In 2010 local resident Charles Benton says he knows what he saw a few miles north of Broken Bow, deep in the woods near Hochatown. The city has taken advantage of the national news and hope to draw visitors on the hunt for big foot.

The weather was warmer which was our goal after leaving Angler’s RV Resort 2 nights early and canceling our reservation for Eagle's Nest RV Park, in Grove, Oklahoma from April 12 to April 18. This put us off schedule which is not a bad thing. One advantage is we are flexible in our travel. The disadvantage is we normally pay more for campgrounds.

In our case of Tiny Town Cabins & RV Park, this is our most expensive campground to date at $40.00 per night. The RV Park opened in December 2016. The bathrooms and showers are all new cedar buildings. The sites come in 3 sizes from Text (30'x25’), small (40'x28'), medium (60'x30'), and large (70'x40'). We had chosen a medium site. There was a sign on the office door showing the campground was for sale. The reviews are mixed about management, loose animals, and family. We talked to a person on the phone before arriving, but never seen a staff person. There were permanent campers on the outer edge that drove through the campsite roads at full speed. We setup the basics and hung out in the camper. We tried to pull out the awnings a couple of times but there was wind in the forecast. I researched the area using TripAdvisor and Google to see what we can visit in one day..

The next day we headed out towards Broken Bow. Our first attraction is Gardner Mansion & Museum, but the gate was closed at the time we visited. A frustrated with cell phone coverage we tried to find somewhere else to go. I decided to go to Fort Towson Historic Site in Fort Towson, OK. It is about 40 minutes away west. We drove about 5 miles out of town when we approached all vehicles stopped. We were on a slight upgrade so we could see nothing. There was a driveway and clearing cars and trucks were turning around at. I pulled off to the side, grabbed my binoculars to see if I can see something down the road about half a mile where the police, fire, and ambulance were located. I seen at the base of the hill there seemed to be a bend in the road before going up the other side. There was a big rig tow truck pulling a dented tractor trailer from the side of the road. I presume it had tipped over. Knowing we were going to be there a while we decided to head back.

We stopped for gas and once again searched for attractions. We found the Heritage Museum just one mile from the gas station in town. The directions took us into a neighborhood crumbling from time and neglect. We never found the place and gave up. We later heard there was a Heritage Museum downtown but have since closed. Thinking we were done here, we started to head back to the campground. We stopped at one roadside stop to get a picture of Bigfoot.

As we approached the Tiny Town RV Park, to our right was Beavers Bend Wildlife Museum. Cost was $7.00 per person for adults. The owned and operated by Shane and BJ Womack. The museum is a collection of wildlife displays from the collection of Shane and BJ Womack. BJ Womack gives an audio tour of the displays with both educational information about the wildlife on display and other interesting facts. Womacks’s Taxidermy Studio is also on display in the tour. Many people believe Taxidermy museums are cruel and inappropriate. One the contrary we have been to at least 4 since last year. All have been respectful and have the animals in natural scenes and habitat. The uniqueness of Beavers Bend Wildlife Museum is the audio tour that goes with the visit. BJ goes out of her way to give details about the animals, display and conservation efforts on some of the animals on display.

We headed back to the campground to check on Bella Bee. As soon as we finished walking her, we drove a few hundred feet to the entrance to Beavers Bend State Park. The entry is free.

Inside Beavers Bend State Park is the Forest Heritage Center Museum. The museum is operated by the Forest Heritage Center Advisory Board and Oklahoma Forestry Services, the museum houses historical documents, antique forestry tools, wood art, homestead memorabilia, and a research library filled with books, periodicals, and other materials pertaining to forestry. There are many displays and wood carvings and art. The museum appeared to be small, but actually was laid out in a circle and lasted more than 1 hour to visit.

When we finished the Museum we want to see some of the park so we drove to Broken Bow Dam Overlook and then checked out a few of the campgrounds.

For a day that did not start out as we wanted, we were able to recover without the use of TripAdvisor or Google. I was able to call Whitney Resorts formally Sun Country in Whitney Texas to see if we can arrive one day early. The previous night I adjusted our Coast to Coast reservation to arrive on Friday 13th versus April 18th. We tried to change the date to the 12th but Coast to Coast requires 72 hr reservation. I emailed the manager a Whitney Resorts. He called us today and said we can arrive on Friday.

Last night we had a cold front come through. We had light rain, but the wind really picked up. Luckily the RV Park is cut into a hill, so we did not get the worst of it. We were expecting gusts up to 35 miles per hour. We did not venture out at all. The internet here is fantastic so I took the time to update software and phones. I also added pictures to my photo gallery commission websites at AdobeStock, GettyStock, and ShutterStock.

I started to make a new video of Tennessee, but seen on YouTube messages from Copy Right people making comment on the song selection on each of my previous videos of our Adventure. I thought buying the music on Amazon Music allowed me to use the songs for no profit. The messages left it to their discretion to go after us. After that I decided to stop the videos. Secondly I decided to change up the Blog by creating a personal website and blog for more flexibility. I bought the URL sites LoraandEricsRVAdventure.com and EricandLorasRVAdventure.com. Using Wix.com, I started to make a new site.

On Friday we packed up and headed to Whitney Resorts in Whitney, Texas. We were hoping to visit a long time friend and previous co-worker at Cummins Candice, but in chat letting her know we adjusted the dates, conflicted with a business trip.

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