MO Vacation Log - Day 6

All right, this will be my last post covering our spring vacation in Missouri. I still can’t believe that a month ago we were complaining about the weather. I would take those 40 degrees sunshiny days back in a heartbeat compared to the two feet of snow that fell around here in the last weeks.

The forecast for our last day in Lake of the Ozarks was sunny and seventy. About time.

Earlier in the trip, while perusing a travel brochure section somewhere, I found a handout of the “Self-guided driving tour of the Highway 134 Historic District”. It looked like a mission I was willing to take on, all within the Lake of Ozarks State Park.

First stop was the Portal Structure, which was originally built as a shelter and place for gathering information. Too small to serve that purpose today, it stands as a reminder of a simpler past.

  The Park Office.

 The Trail Center.

 Airport Bridge is one of three single-arch stone bridges along this highway. When we went over the other two, I naturally wanted to stop for more pictures, but kept quiet and let Hubby keep driving.

 
 We did stop at the Lee C. Fine Memorial Airport. It only looks like Hubby is standing atop those boulders.

The Old Homestead Building.

 Wandering around the grounds of this building, I suddenly got the feeling I was being watched.

 Yikes.

 The Open Shelter.

 The Restroom.

 The Beach House.

And then, not on the list of historic sites, was the Beach.

 

 And what must have been a fish cleaning building which has seen better times.

 Last, with the sun warming up nicely, we drove through the campground and then hiked along the Fawn’s Ridge Trail.

 The trail was appropriately named, as we discovered these four deer and I took way too many pictures of them.

 Lake of the Ozarks.

 And that’s all folks.