Waveland Park Campground

On October 21, 2016 I took the short drive to Waveland Park Campground on Blue Mountain Lake by myself to setup for a four day weekend. The park is south of Waveland Arkansas just west of Havana off state highway 10. Blue Mountain Lake is an impoundment of the Petit Jean River.  Water from the reservoir is discharged via a tunnel through the mountain at the southeast end of the lake. The tunnel emerges at Outlet Park which is divided into Outlet Park Left and Outlet Park Right with a steep canal between that is the entire volume of the diverted Petit Jean River. 
I setup campsite #27 by myself and enjoyed a quiet Friday night. Nighttime temperatures were in the low 40's with a low reported at Boonville of 38 degrees. Donna came around noon on Saturday with Brayden and Hannah.

Sunday morning Brayden and I went fishing and caught nothing from the bank of the lake so we went to Outlet Park (Right Side over the mountain). The water flow was very low, but we were able to find a small pool out on the rocks of the canal where I caught only one small catfish. 

By Saturday afternoon the crowds started to arrive for the weekend and by evening most of the campground was full.

Sunday morning while Brayden and I were fishing the girls were back at the campsite making Play-Doh art.

 

Hannah and I took a walk to the edge of the lake and she took the pictures below with my Nikon SLR camera. The cypress trees were starting to show some fall color that Hannah captured pretty well.

After returning from fishing Sunday morning we all took a day trip to Mount Magazine State Park for lunch. Blue Mountain Lake can be seen from the south side of the Mount Magazine State Park lodge.

Sunday afternoon Jessica, Juan and their friend Teresa came up for the evening. Donna left late in the evening with them to caravan back to Russellville. Not having to go to school on Monday, Hannah and Brayden were able to stay with me Sunday night. 

Monday morning we got up, had a big breakfast and took a ride down to the lake for another attempt at fishing.  We came away with the same results as the previous day (empty handed). Brayden and Hannah enjoyed the fishing all the same.

Hannah and Brayden were a big help breaking camp on Monday morning. Hannah even helped me dump the waste tanks at the dump station.