Mountain View

Mountain View is a quaint little town with a well-preserved town square, but we didn’t get to spend too much time there. The weekend we visited was the same weekend as Beanfest, which took over the town square. We decided that being around a large group of people who had spent the day eating thousands of pounds of beans probably wasn’t a great idea.

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So we went to a few places outside of town – we went to Blanchard Springs and then drove out to Big Flat and visited Gravity Brew Works (highly recommended, great place). We also drove across this old swinging bridge over Sylamore Creek. The first swinging bridge here was built in 1914 but it was destroyed during a flood, it was replaced with the current bridge in 1943.



The cabin we stayed at overlooked a small creek, which had a good amount of water and some nice fall colors.





Before heading back home on Sunday, we made a quick stop at the town square in Mountain View. Since it was a Sunday in rural Arkansas, most of the stores were closed. But I was able to get a few pictures of the old county courthouse, which was built in 1922. It does seem very fitting that a courthouse in Stone County was made out of stone.