Fall Pictures from the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma

Last weekend I enjoyed fall in the Ouachita Mountains. The Ouachita Mountains stretch from just west of Little Rock into Oklahoma. There is a 54 mile drive on Scenic Arkansas 88 and Oklahoma One which many of these pictures come from.

Including in the pictures are Mount Sugarloaf. When I worked for Kodak Dental a few years ago, I left the Arkansas State Dental Meeting in Hot Springs and drove to Tulsa via 88. As I crossed into Oklahoma and found a general store to get gas (they had the old analog pumps), I went into pay. I noticed the front-page story on the local paper had an article that geologist were watching the old mountain because it's a dormant volcano. That's right, a volcano in Oklahoma in the Spiraling Staircase. Who knew?

The article suggested the volcano may be coming back to life since temperatures on the surface and within the mountain were increasing. That's one of the things I miss about being on the road. You received an encyclopedia worth of useless trivia.