9/24/2023 0 Comments Rocky falls shut inHe flat-out rejected the upper level options. Even Big Man, the water crank, participated in the lower level slides. The water is a little faster and it just seems like a good place to lose electronics.Īt the top, the kids were able to slide down on their backside at certain parts. On the second climb, we came back prepared with life jackets and I left my camera. Even if everyone turns on their listening ears there are slick spots and the falls have some speed. I DO NOT recommend skipping the life jackets. The first climb, we went without life jackets. Not impossible but nerve-wracking with three little children on my own. We walked halfway up the falls on the first round. But more fun than looking at the falls is climbing them. With my young children, the water play options at the base of the falls provides enough entertainment and my crew would have been just fine swimming and splashing for several hours. Rocky Falls attracts a diverse group of visitors but there is plenty of room for everyone to have a spot in the rocks by the shallow water. To visit on a busy holiday weekend, we had some excellent people-watching opportunities. Big Man will tell you in plain, threenager language to stop swimming and stay close. He will sit on the bank for hours and play with his boat but- hold your horses– if you want to actually swim. He’ll tell anyone about his swim lessons. This happens all while I am steps away from Big Man who is a water curmudgeon. The water is also deep enough that my confident eldest can swim away from me, announce she can’t touch, and then show me how she goes under water. My girls don’t mind the deep water, Arthur is still nervous. You can call him “The Water Crank” for short. It was too rural for my Google maps but after I had a paper map in hand, I loved EVERY minute of my off the grid time with my crew. To get there, go past the blinking yellow light, turn at a dirt road, and don’t be a stubborn New England idiot in rural Missouri. It is less-than 150 miles from Springfield and Branson, Missouri. Our Labor Day adventure was a rural loop that started Echo Bluff State Park and continued to Rocky Falls Shut-Ins located between Eminence, Missouri and Winona, Missouri. Rural Day Trips to Rocky Falls Shut-InsĪre you stuck in Branson or Southwest Missouri? Do you need to get out for a day and see something other than a show? Might I suggest some waterfalls in rural Missouri? There is a day-trip to the Rocky Falls Shut-ins that will give your family an afternoon of lacking cell-reception and waterfall climbing.
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