Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, 3/15-16/18

62. Scampsite # 72, at the end of our area.  This is another power plant lake, but it's a huge lake, part of a chain.  It's definitely a big-boat fishing lake.  There is some hiking, we saw Buffleheads in a cove of the lake while hiking, but the trails aren't close to the camping areas. There was a bird blind at the pond on the hiking trail, but we were there in the middle of the day and didn't see any birds.
The camping pads are sloped for run-off, so make leveling a challenge.  The cemetery of old Fort Sherman, a military post to help settlers, is all that is left and happens to be within the park boundaries.

Scampsite 72

Bufflehead Ducks

Fort Sherman cemetery.

Lake Bob Sandlin.

The pond with the bird blind. 

Pilgrim's Pride history, now Anvil Brewing.

Bo Pilgrim, at the factory.

Ezekiel Airship.

Nearby attractions: Pittsburg is famous for being the hometown of Bo Pilgrim, of Pilgrim's Pride chickens, and of race car driver Carroll Shelby.  It was also the site of the Ezekiel Airship's construction and flight attempts (a replica is in the local museum, which is also the old depot).  Pittsburg has its own type of hot links, a brewery, and Vaughn's Catfish, a lakeside restaurant. When we were in the area 7 years ago, we ate dinner at Snappy Pappy's but it's now closed.