Hey, I resembled all that!
Perhaps as they were moving rocks around in Branson (the first step to building something here--we have already moved our rocks around a bit and are waiting for the health department to let us know if we moved them properly), they wandered down to ar
KANSAS and moved some of it around.
As 62 is a common drive for us, like when we want to take the southern route to get to our dentist in Mammoth Springs, and as we were sitting on pins and needles--a very uncomfortable thing--watching KY3 and KOLR10 track the storms--the only local programming when we have storms, which is quite often--we know for a fact that the first wave tracked through the Flippen/Gassville area, Gassville being virtually leveled (not that anything around here is level, virtually or otherwise), Mountain Home, West Plains MO and on to the NE. That path is well WEST of HB, CV, etc.
Of course, anything that happens in Flippen, anyone who is at all close to bass fishing, will pay attention to.
I'm 99% certain that you meant to say that HB is EAST of that area.
Then, there was the supercell that cut a swath through TN the same night, capturing the national news headlines.
But, there is an update about Gassville every night here, like that fact that an ice storm has hit, 1000s are without power, and all the generators from Lowe's have been sent to Gassville.
The only craft
fairs over that way was at Hardy, and it was always the same weekend as War Eagle, so we never did it. A little further that way, DW did the one at Jonesboro, because she is from over that way and her Mom and SIL went too.
Yes, Crown Point
is 2 resorts, different because of unit amenities, but they share common amenities, a nice (at that time) indoor pool (great for an annual extended-family Spring Break), beach-like area on Crown lake, and so forth.
The last we were there, whichever resort had just built the log homes, cut places. And, yes, we were there in a 3-bedroom unit on what was then a Bonus Vacation or a Vacation Escape, the forerunner of Extra Vacations. It was what would now be the Last Call version, like $99. That was when our 9-year-old great niece was a baby.
HB is a retirement
village that probably wishes to be CV when it grows up, which wishes to be Holiday Island when it grows up, which wishes to be BV when it grows up.
Buying on Table Rock Lake put an end to those Spring lake family getaways. We haven't even used our 2 free nights at Bella Vista.
For the OP, Hot Springs is another option.
And, part of the Ozark-American family this Iowa boy married into call Houston (TX) home, they being oil people. Part of them will be retiring here, having already bought their 13 acres on the lake, and they are coming to visit this week, to visualize the house they will build.
Yes, Horseshoe Bend is pretty much in the "sticks." It's away from the busy world and should be a good place to relax.
JLB describes it pretty well, about as good as a person from Iowa who now lives on the lake out from Branson. Well, he might have been to a craft fair over there in that part of Arkansas. Horsehoe Bend is WEST of some places hit by the tornado last week. Very close to Ash Flat and Highland, two places said to have been hit hard. I traveled northeast Arkansas for 10 years and after that lived in Batesville for four years. I have not seen the resorts at Horseshoe, but I understand they are nice. People have been moving AWAY from Izard County for years. The land is hilly and ricky. If they have built a successful resort in Horsehoe Bend, they have found SOMETHING the land is good for.
Branson was once hilly and rocky. Over the years they have rearranged those rocks with great success!
Don S.
