Talk me out of buying land in the Arkansas Ozarks

spring and fall are delightful
summer and winter are miserable

My parents have 80AC near pelsor with a beautiful home on a limestone cliff looking over Richland creek, which bisects the property so they own both sides of it. There are numerous waterfalls and feeder creeks, stone outcroppings and formations and deep caverns. It’s unspeakably beautiful

Winter and summer are uninhabitable. Winter brings bitter wet cold, ice, sleet, mud…just bone chilling conditions. Summers are stifling hot and dry and the chiggers and ticks are horrible.

Spring and fall is heaven on earth

We used to go to Buffalo River years ago before it was a park, they had a small news paper for the area and there was 40 acres advertised in it for $400. Dad had the money so he called the guy and was told "I can't take you to it but we can go up one mountain and I can point it out on the other mountain".

Hahaha. I was going to post something similar. When the listing only has drone photos, don’t get your hopes up.

“Winter and summer were uninhabitable “

I lived there,Bull Shoals,for 2 years.It was hot in the summer with some humidity but not as bad as here in Louisiana.
Winters were colder than here.Had snow both years for about a month.Long time residents told me it didn’t snow every year.
I think you were exaggerating how bad summer and winters are.

Where I was never got chiggers but the ticks were pretty bad in the woods.

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ould trade a NWA summer with a south La summer 100x…..

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Atleast up there you can find plenty of places to go for a swim in clear water free of gators.

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the chiggers and ticks are horrible.

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You ain't kidding. Grandparents lived in Cave City. Parents would ship us up there for summers when we were kids; spent a lot of that time in the woods and would get absolutely covered in both.

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Talk me out of buying land in the Arkansas Ozarks

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You want to move there? Or just recreational property?
I was wanting to buy some recreational property for the longest time but here’s where I have ended up.
-Any piece cheap enough to buy is probably far away from your current residence and won’t be used much.
- cost for utilities (electric, water and a access road) can be extremely expensive.
- cost for a simple cabin and having to take care of a secondary property becomes a regular chore requiring trips to the property even when not being used for recreation.
- all the blood sweat and tears of taking care of the place will probably not be appreciated by my kids and they will not use it due to how far it is from their residence and only sold when I pass.

Just take the money you planned on spending 50-100k and invest it and use it to make a lot of trips to that area and get a vrbo!! You said to convince you not to!!!

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I wouldn’t mind moving up around the Gravette area

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You better hurry. The prices are starting to get elevated.

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Umm that's not the Ozark

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I used it as a blanket term for hilly/mountainous terrain in the state

I should have said Ozarks/Ouachitas