Raw Nature Recreation & Photography

03/29/2025

A piece of history nestled in an autumn embrace.

12/07/2024

❄️🌸❄️Frost Flowers❄️🌸❄️

Take a look at these amazing frost flowers seen early this morning along the trail.
These rare formations occur when the ground stays warm, but the air above drops to freezing or below causing moisture from plants roots to rise and freeze into these delicate, petal-like layers. Nature is so beautiful, incredible, and complex!

Have you been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a frost flower?

11/01/2024

😻🍁🍂 🍁

10/30/2024

Whew, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? After losing access to our account in early September, we're back just in time for peak leaf season! Despite the drier weather this year, the upcoming week promises to be the most stunning in the Ozark Mountains—the best place in the world to witness the beauty of the falling leaves.

We are closed Wednesdays, but working our butts off to try to get the park open for you this afternoon!

09/04/2024

Closed today (9/4) for some necessary pre-autumn clean-up!

07/24/2024

Catch the Rock at 2:48!

From Eureka Springs Historical Museum
"Here's another vintage promotional film of Eureka Springs, from about the 1950s. We had tried to upload this to YouTube a couple years ago, but it was blocked due to the copyrighted music. It is now available for your viewing pleasure!

Featured are scenes of the Crescent Hotel, Harding Spring, Sweet Spring, some historic homes and businesses along Spring Street, Onyx/Laundry Spring, Blue Spring, St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church, the Basin Park Hotel, Pivot Rock and Natural Bridge, Inspiration Point, Highway 62 , boating and fishing, swimming at Lake Lucerne, hayrides, horseback riding, games of tennis, horseshoes, and shuffleboard, local pottery crafts and basket-weaving, traditional square-dancing and Ozark dining, the annual Folk Festival, and an interesting religious fable about the dogwood tree.

Please note that the City of Eureka Springs no longer advises drinking directly from the springs, as seen in this film. 🙃
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We're excited to share this vintage promotional film for Eureka Springs that was digitized from an old 16mm film canister stored in our museum archives. It o...

06/19/2024

Hotels and rentals are for the brainless - book yourself a campsite at Pivot Rock for Eureka's biggest event of the year! Perfect time of the year to sleep under the stars! We have more primitive sites and A+ amenities coming soon!

https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/land/arkansas-raw-nature-recreation-1xmhvr78?adults=1&children=0&srid=68789475-d803-4a90-aa87-192a345ef68e

We are 147 days away from Zombie Crawl, and hotels are already selling out! It looks like a little over half of the downtown lodging locations are already fully booked for that weekend.

This year we will have events between Thursday evening (Oct. 24) and Saturday night (Oct. 26), including the Nightmare in the Ozarks Film Festival!

Book your stay now if you plan on attending!

06/04/2024

Mother Nature's colors never cease to amaze!

05/28/2024

Let's try this again....

Due to some miscommunication, the electric company workers (who are working diligently to restore power), shut and locked our gate with their key lock behind them as they were leaving from working on the lines....locking me inside not knowing until closing time😬...

So! The road is finally clear and our gate will be open for normal business hours today!

Pictured: did you know you can find quartz right on our trail?? Here is a piece I found yesterday morning! Many pieces are available for purchase in the shop, or find and take your own little piece of pivot quartz.