More De Gray Lake and Mt. Pleasant, TX

Friday, October 21, 2016

We only have 2.5 hours to our next stop and since we don't want to be there before 2 pm we have the whole morning to see more at De Gray Lake.

De Gray Lake is just outside Arkadelphia, AR.  
 

 De Gray Lake is a reservoir on the Caddo River. De Gray dam impounds the waters of the Caddo River to form a flood control lake that covers 13,400 acres, and a shoreline of 207 miles. Completed in 1972 at a cost of $63,800,000 including a 40 MW hydraulic turbine and a 28 MW turbine generate electricity for the Southwestern Power Administration of Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. (Per Wikipedia)

 The Caddo River just below the earthen dam.

On down the Caddo River.  Pretty area!

It was nice to see the sun shining this morning.
 

From the Visitors Center we got a closer view of the dam.
 

This is the 40 MW generating station at the back side of the dam.
 

This is the Iron Mountain Visitors Center.  We should be leaving by noon today.  It has been a beautiful and relaxing morning.

We made it to Ramblin Fever in Mt. Pleasant.  We are using Passport America for 3 nights.  There are no restrooms or showers, but there are laundry facilities. All sites are FHU with 30/50 amp electric.

Our site is pretty narrow.  You can see our neighbors on one side and the parking area for the site on the other side.

We drove around town a little and they have this large city park around a lake.  The name is "New City Lake".  Original huh?

Sunset is so early these days, we almost missed it.