Day Four – Finds us looking for an indoor activity. Rainy weather and cabin fever, look no further than Get Air. It’s an indoor trampoline park. Everyone else was in school, so again had the place pretty much to ourselves. Dodge ball on a trampoline anyone?
Day Five – Today dawned nice and sunny. A little chilly, but great hiking weather. So, my brother chose an interesting little hike in the Lake of the Ozarks State Park, the Coakley Hollow Trail. It’s listed as a rugged one mile loop trail. However, some of the wetter areas are covered by a boardwalk which makes for better footing in those areas. The area of this hike is in a fen, which is an area that has mineralized water constantly seeping to the surface.
Lake of the Ozarks is a large state park covering some 54,000 acres. This park has it all camping, fishing, and even a cave. Ozark Caverns has tours during the summer months.
We also realized that we passed right by the swinging bridges road, so, we decided to check those out as well. After all, it did make Travelocity’s top 10 of things to do in the Lake of the Ozarks area.
The one pictured here is the Grand Auglaize Swinging Bridge built in 1922. It’s a wire suspension bridge, that spans 414 feet. We also crossed the Mill Creek Bridge, which is a metal bridge that is 135 feet long and was built in 1925. Will, the Civil Engineer, wasn’t too sure we should be driving across the bridge until we saw a truck successfully drive over. Came back and did a little research, to find the bridge was rated structurally deficient in 2015. Guess Will may know what he’s talking about.
