09/27/2011 

Golf / Fine Dining / Swimming

For over a century, Eureka Country Club has provided an exceptional experience that is both family oriented and well-suited for business purposes. Enjoy golf, swimming, cards, sports bar, and casual and fine dining all in one location. We pride ourselves on the number of social events held at the Club year-round. ECC has free WIFI throughout the clubhouse and pool area. ECC can host business meetings as well as banquets, wedding receptions and parties

09/27/2011

Canoe Expeditions on Fall River / Eureka Lake


09/27/2011 

Geocaching

 

Geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices and then share their experiences online. For local directions click here.

09/27/2011

Bird Watching

 

The Flint Hills provide an excellent habitat for a variety of wildlife species. Habitat includes uplands, grasslands, agricultural lands, hardwood river bottoms, marshes, and flooded sloughs.

The area attracts thousands of ducks and geese in the spring and fall during migration. It is also home to many species of resident wildlife. Visitors to the area are invited to observe and enjoy wildlife and plants in their natural environment.

April and May are the best months for observing songbirds and perching birds. November is an excellent time to observe the peak migration of waterfowl. The list includes 294 birds, including 90 species which nest in the area.Most birds are migratory.

http://flinthillstallgrass.org/2009/03/23/birds-of-a-feather/

 
09/27/2011 

Fall River Lake

A Fishing and Hunting Paradise

Fall River Dam is located on Fall River, a tributary of the Verdigris River, in Greenwood County, Kansas. It is approximately 17 miles southeast of Eureka. Flowers, birds and game enhance this project in rolling prairie country.  

The 10,900-acre Fall River Game Management Area is located here. Hunting at Fall River Lake is in accordance with applicable Federal and state regulations. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks enforces fish and game laws. Unless otherwise posted, hunting is permitted in designated hunting areas with all legal weapons. All lands are open to the public for hunting, except for developed recreation areas, lands around the dam, and other structures as indicated on the hunting map.

Only temporary duck blinds are authorized and they must be removed after each hunting trip.

The vicinity in which Fall River is located has long been noted for its rolling prairies and tree-dotted valleys, sheltered by limestone-capped ridges. The lake is about a mile wide at the damsite and stretches up the picturesque Fall River for 15 miles. The scenic beauty of the area with its profusion of native wildlife and vegetation beckons all nature enthusiasts.

For birdwatchers there are more than 400 species of birds in the area, including migratory waterfowl and other species that spend the summers in Kansas, as well as those inhabiting the area the year round. In the spring, and again in the fall, there are wildflowers in the open pastures, along fence rows and in the wooded areas. Hedgerows and former farmsteads produce persimmon, Osage orange, redbud and dogwood.

Opportunities for outdoor family fun and recreation at the park areas surrounding Fall River include swimming, boating, water skiing, camping, picnicking and sightseeing. Facilities available at these areas include picnic and camping sites, boat ramps, sanitary facilities, etc.

Information reprinted from the Army Corps of Engineers website

09/27/2011

The Wild Horses at Teter Rock

 

A little back roading and you will find yourself in a vast prairie with a lone rock ...

Sunday Morning at Teter Rock - David P Janzen

…. My anticipation of the annual college friends' reunion, like Christmas, once here it flies by
bringing Sunday, our last day, with its usual bittersweet mood….

But this Sunday a new idea breaks into our routine. Teter Rock, is a place we should see on a morning like this.

So we're up before dawn ... to drive this vast prairie earth to find the rock. It is enough to just enjoy these vistas of tallgrass pastures where some say the West begins or at least is preserved by protective absent landowners and the few ranchers and townspeople struggling to make a living … more cows than people in these hills.

As Teter Rock suddenly juts out on a high hill, we notice a few foundations along the rutted path, the remnants of Teterville, a town of six hundred in its heyday. The oil and town played out together, leaving a few pumps here and there barely moving. But someone with a heart for earlier days, the days when John Teter erected this limestone mass to show settlers the way to the Cottonwood River, has brought wild Mustangs to this great expanse and found room for them to roam.

As we reach the rock, the horses are nearly still in their groupings, and we marvel at their serenity and stateliness …

We are quiet much of this morning, not subdued but caught in the peacefulness below and in the unspoken love we experience from the years of friendship. Yet the wild horses have boundaries somewhere out there, and so have we, calling us back to our families and work.

This morning Teter Rock has brought another marker into our lives, a glimpse of who we are…