111 Bee Creek and Cornell Road
Drury-Mincy Conservation Area (4,089 acres) is across the state line in Missouri next to Bull Shoals Lake, another ‘close to home’ place I have been wanting to check out. Today looks to be a good opportunity, since most of the snow has melted and weather predictions say: 'sunny with highs in the low sixties'. Drury-Mincy has two separate sections: Drury Conservation Area (DCA) to the northeast, and the larger Mincy Conservation Area (MCA) farther south, at the south end of Mincy is Bee Creek, that’s where I start exploring. Bee Creek at Bull Shoals Lake Pulling into MCA along Bee Creek I follow the road as far as I can, Bee Creek flows into Bull Shoals but the road turns north before reaching the lake. Crossing Bee Creek four times with no bridges each ford is deeper than the one before. After the fourth crossing the road leaves Bee Creek heading up the hill covered in sheets of solid ice. Near the...