Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - Boiling Springs State Park, Woodward OK
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Night camp
Site 19 - Boiling Springs State Park, Woodward OK
- StateParks.com introduces the park with: "Recreational facilities include 10 RV sites with modern hookups and pull through sites, 29 semi-modern back-in sites and tent campsites. Modern sites have 50amp/30amp service and semi-modern sites have 30amp service. The park also offers four cabins, two group camps, security, a swimming pool with concession stand and changing house, restrooms with showers, playgrounds, fishing spots on Lake Shaul, picnic areas, group picnic shelters, outdoor grills, hiking trails and wildlife viewing. Boiling Springs Golf Course, an 18-hole course, is located next to the park."
- Verizon cell phone is weak.
- Verizon Broadband service is available here with an amplifier.
- Locate Boiling Springs State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."