Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show
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The Forest Heritage Center Museum will host one of Oklahoma’s most popular autumn events November 14th, 15th and 16th, 2014. The 21st annual Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show brings about 17,000 visitors to southeastern Oklahoma each year, just in time for the beautiful fall colors.
The festival is a showcase for turn-of-the-century arts and crafts. This year almost 70 exhibitors and vendors will feature crafts and skills like candle making, woodturning, lye soap making, knife making and quilting. Herbalists will share their knowledge, instrument makers will exhibit their work, and quilters will show their best.
The courtyard of the Forest Heritage Center is a haven for the children. Storytellers spin their yarns and the petting zoo offers up-close and personal encounters with furry critters. The children’s activity area will offer kids the opportunity to create a puppet show with their imagination and their own handmade paper puppets.
The twang of banjos, the wail of the fiddles and the ring of the dulcimer strings accompany all this. Four of the country’s best folk musicians will be featured on an outdoor stage throughout the three-day festival. There will be free Mountain Dulcimer workshops offered each day in the courtyard. Folks are invited to bring their own dulcimers or try their hand on the dulcimers provided by instructors Keith and Darlene Vanderbosch.
The always-outstanding food at the Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show takes a sweet turn this year. Food vendors are offering pork-o-bobs, patty melts, chicken tacos, as well as smoked turkey legs and paninis. Back by popular demand are Indian tacos, cowboy tacos, and burgers. Long-time Festival favorites like kettle korn, caramel apples and funnel cakes will also tempt visitors. Wash it all down with fresh apple cider or old-time root beer. The festival is a food-lovers paradise!
Mother Nature should be providing quite a show of her own during the weekend. Fall colors should be peaking and park guests can also enjoy the scheduled Beavers Bend State Park activities, like nature center programs, hayrides and train rides.
The Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show is made possible by Oklahoma Forestry Services, the Forest Heritage Center Advisory Board and staff, Oklahoma Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the McCurtain County Tourism Authority, Oklahoma Humanities Council and the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department. Festival hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
For more info, please contact:
Forest Heritage Center at (580) 494-6497 or fhc@beaversbend.com
Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show
Phone : 580-494-6497 (Always call and confirm events.)
Email Address : fhc@beaversbend.com
Web: www.forestry.ok.gov/folk-festival
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Beavers Bend Resort Park Resorts
40 rooms each with a million-dollar view, sits high above Broken Bow Lake . Refined country furnishings, cable TV and in-room coffee service are among the many features standard in each room. Enjoy complimentary breakfast by the fireplace in the Great Room or relax on the Balcony Terrace. Rates vary from $110 to $175 from guest rooms to suites with special rates for off season and longer stays.
Beavers Bend Resort Park Cabins
Beavers Bend Resort Park also has 47 cabins located in wood groves overlooking the Mountain Fork River on Broken Bow Lake . The cabins can sleep from two to six people and come equipped with kitchen/dining utensils, stove, refrigerator, linens, and central heat and air. Most cabins have fireplaces. None have telephones or televisions. PETS ARE WELCOME. Rates vary from $58 to $115 with reduced rates available for weekdays and off season.
Beavers Bend Resort Park Camping
For the camper or RV owner, the Beavers Bend Resort Park maintains 15 primitive camping areas, six semi-modern areas (electric and water hookups), and two modern areas (electric, water, sewer hookups and nearby bath house and dump station). All sites have toilet facilities; three of the semi-modern areas (Area A, B, and C) have full comfort station/shower facilities.Two Group Camps with Cabins sleep up to 144 people.
* 110 RV sites with water & electricity, 31 sites may be reserved May - September, subject to availability. Prices $15. to $18.
* 56 tent sites - $8.00 per day, water and bathroom in area. No reservations necessary.
* 2 shelters available - $40. per day - reservations are required.
Beavers Bend Resort Park Hiking Trails
Beavers Bend Resort Park also draws the serious hiker. Its David Boren Trail offers 16 miles of hiking trails with 4 miles of multi-purpose (mountain bike) trails that wander along ridge tops, over creek bottoms, through tall stands of timber, and into areas so remote one can almost experience what early-day explorers must have felt upon seeing the Quachita National Forest for the first time. Good news for the not-so-serious hiker: the same trail can also be divided into a variety of short and long hikes.
Beavers Bend Resort Park Nature Centers
A year-round naturalist and a well-stocked nature center make possible a program lineup that includes campfire programs on the banks of the Mountain Fork River, nature hikes, arts and crafts classes, water sports, bingo, sunset hikes, nature films, and astronomy outings.