Craziest thing. Hippies. Families used to also go there. It was like
Eureka Springs' Community Swimming Hole. My dad took us all there once when
I was probably 6 years old (after we first moved there from western
Kansas), because we'd heard how cool the swimming hole was. We kept our
clothes on, but we were the only ones. Could have been 60-100 people. The
place was full of hippie families of all generations, walking around,
talking to everybody, and sitting in the spring-fed natural stone pools
that were said to have been used to scald hogs for one of the armies in the
Civil War. Some things are best left in the 1970s!
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM Todd Ballinger <todd.ballinger...>
wrote:
> Special place. It's seen some changes since the mid 70's when it was the
> community skinny-dipping nature waterpark.
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM Carol Joan Patterson <
> <joanie.patterson...> wrote:
>
>> I actually lived at Hogscald back in the early 80's. Many of us walked
>> to the springs on a regular basis. I have super wonderful memories but
>> never birded there. Now I plan to check it out!
>>
>> On Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 10:02:23 AM CDT, Todd Ballinger <
>> <todd.ballinger...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Art,
>> I must have missed your email the first time around when you sent it, but
>> found it when I was searching old emails for birders in Carroll County.
>> Hogscald Holler is a special place for me, long before I ever started
>> birding: it was where my dad taught me to swim back in the mid 1970s, and
>> then the place in the summer of 1998 I went on my first outing with my
>> future wife sitting around a little campfire on a small bluff one night
>> late after work. Birding Carroll County has given me a chance to retrace
>> some of my favorite places that I know like the back of my hand, as I
>> re-imagine my home country now by discovering the amazing birds that were
>> always there but had existed beyond my powers of perception. Finding your
>> email these three years after you wrote it shows me that there is someone
>> else who finds joy in uncovering the hidden treasures around us. Thank you
>> for sharing your discoveries.
>>
>> The Best,
>> Todd Ballinger, Fayetteville
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:00 PM Art Weigand <aweigand13...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I was pleasantly shocked to get a long look at a Canada Warbler this
>> morning. The necklace and gray back were quite clear. I was on CR 148 which
>> is about 6 miles south of Eureka Springs off Hwy 23. This road dips down
>> into a low area with a creek running eventually into the end of the big
>> Clifty arm of Beaver lake, an area commonly referred to as Hogscald. I’ve
>> had wonderful luck seeing warblers along this road for years. In addition
>> to the Canada I also had 3 Kentucky’s, a Northern Parula and a Hooded
>> warbler.
>> Although I couldn’t find them this morning I also often see Blue-winged
>> warblers, Louisiana Waterthrushes and Ovenbirds along this road as well.
>>
>> Art Weigand
>> Oak Ridge Park
>> Beaver Lake
>>
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