RiverCrest Activities

Plan your day at RiverCrest

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What is a typical day at RiverCrest?

There is really no "typical day" at RiverCrest! The awesome array of activities is enough to challenge anyone when it comes to cramming fun into a day, a weekend, or a lifetime of outdoor adventures. Start with our idea of a great day, then have fun building your own day of memories.

Morning

The day starts early at RiverCrest. Get up at daybreak and hike to the scenic overlook to watch the sun rise, with morning coffee or cocoa. Then head down to the river for a bit of spin cast fishing for bass along the streams that flow into the main river. En route along the sand bars do a little beach combing for keepsakes like Indian arrowheads, fossils, unique driftwood, and neat rocks.

Today you kayak to your secret 'honey hole' to fish. You pass some mountain bikers getting ready for a riverside ride along the way.

After landing plenty of small bass, releasing most to grow bigger for next time, you prepare a tasty lunch on an island where a short power nap seems in order in the warm sunshine. You note some tracks in the fresh sand of hikers mixed with deer, raccoon, turkey, turtle, and other tracks. You see where the turtles are laying eggs and make a mental note to drop by the Ranch Headquarters to feed and observe the working live turtle ranch population. You see some folks in inner tubes lazily drift past and decide to join them for the afternoon.

Afternoon

As you drift down the river in inner tubes, you note the remains of a giant sand castle a prior visitor has left behind for the waters to slowly erase. You suddenly see in the water a mark of the old wagon tracks in the sandstone bottom and your mind momentarily turns to the early days in this area where Indian encampments filled the river banks at every overlook, military forts sprang up near watering places, and cattle drives and wagon trains traversed everywhere as settlements spread across the lands.

The shuttle picks you up on time and you ride back to the park to watch the sunset, closing out the day's adventures.

Evening

You sit by the bonfire at dusk and eat at the real chuck wagon. One of your fishing group sunbathed a tad too long and now you all hear the complaining, but it is all but muffled by the banjo and fiddle music coming from the campfire as local musicians converge with the food and fun. You amble down the trails to share your stories of the day with others who tried a different venue to catch the flavor of the great outdoors.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow you can take a horseback trail ride and photograph some wildlife, then after lunch try your hand at rock climbing and rappelling. The kids can try their hand at prospecting or visit the barnyard petting zoo.