Willing volunteers provide the emergency services all communities need from the Pine Mountain Fire and Rescue Department. A paved, lighted helicopter pad became a reality here in late 1996, allowing emergency transport of an ill or injured person to expert medical care in area hospitals. The state Department of Aeronautics funded the helicopter pad construction on the site donated by a local property owner. Controlled from flooding by a series of dams along its stream bed, it flows cold now, through its dams, from the bottom of the lakes. Its waters have produced several world record brown trout of 30 pounds or more, but the Rainbow trout is its staple.
Fishermen choose their favorite style, from a boat or from the bank.
An old, well-maintained cemetery on the right is one of several which had to be moved from lower ground when Bull Shoals Lake began filling after Bull Shoals Dam was completed in 1951. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission staff harvest the trout and catfish raised at Pot Shoals, fish which are destined for stocking in Bull Shoals and other Arkansas lakes as well as the White River and other rivers. Take the left fork to Pot Shoals, and as you do, note the antenna on the right side of the road as you go up Pine Mountain. It provides telephone service for Marion County residents isolated by the Lake. An excursion train from Flippin, the White River Railway, carries many tourists alongside White River for a close-up view of Ozarks scenery.