Well at least I did not get skunked. From then on, I retired each night with an empty wide mouth Gatorade bottle in my tent with me to use for bladder relief. Having used this method of relieving myself in the past, I have found it to be an anatomically difficult, but not totally impossible function to perform. I secured my rig to a light pole at Blanchard Springs Visitors Center before going on the tour of the cavern. Blanchard Springs flows out of Blanchard Caverns from the base of this limestone bluff.
Mirror Lake is a mill pond that was formed by a stone dam on the spring branch.
The falling water powered an old grist mill on the site in the late 1800's. This old stone mill dam backs up water in the spring branch to form Mirror Lake. Boardwalk through fragile ecosystem along Mirror Lake. Looking upstream from the bridge across gin clear Sylamore Creek on the way to the campground at Blanchard Springs. My campsite at Blanchard Springs was on a hillside near this gravel bar.