Arkansas Bend Park, Texas

Arkansas Bend Park is located on a meandering arc of the Colorado River known as Lake Travis. How can something be a river and a lake, you ask? What do we look like: geologists or adventure gurus, we answer? This section of the Colorado is very calm, so we’d guess that has something to do with it. It’s also a great spot for fishing and swimming including some cliff diving if you know where to find it. Just be very careful where you jump because most of the shoreline is quite rocky, making for an unpleasant landing to say the least. Arkansas Bend is great if you stay on land, too, with hiking, mountain biking, camping, and some great shaded spots for picnicking. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe; to-may-toe, to-mah-toe; river, lake—it’s all the same here and it’s all delicious, er, we mean beautiful and relaxing.