Our Idea

My husband and I love to camp. We have 3 children ages 13, 10 and 4. Every year we go to Lake Degray in Arkansas to camp for the weekend. We always have a blast and look forward to it every year. My husband is from Arkansas and I am from Tennessee so of course we both have a great love affair with the mountains. In our opinion you cannot get any closer to heaven than in the mountains. A long time ago, when I was in college, I would pass by several state park signs and thought how much fun it would be to check out the different state parks in my area. I can remember driving by them and counting how many I would pass along the way. I am very fortunate that my husband shares my love for the outdoors. We came home from our yearly Degray camping trip and I looked at him and asked him how many state parks there are in AR. He wasn't sure so I looked it up. There are 47 of them. I also looked up how many there where in TN and there are 55. Totaling 102 state parks in Arkansas and Tennessee and I wanted to see them all. So, I proposed an idea to my husband. “Honey, what would you think about going to all the state parks in Tennessee and Arkansas before the kids grow up and move away never to be with us again?" He thought for probably about 2 seconds and said. "it's whatever you want to do babe." I love that man. So there began our plan to go to all 102 state parks in Tennessee and Arkansas.