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Crooked Creek

Crooked Creek is a clear, gravel-bottomed Ozark stream running roughly 80 miles across Boone and Marion counties to the White River near Cotter. Designated by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission as a Blue Ribbon Smallmouth Bass stream and a 22-mile Water Trail (Lower Pyatt to Yellville), it offers easy Class I floats past long gravel bars, riffles, fast chutes and deep pools, and is famed for feisty smallmouth bass. Entirely rain-fed and flashy, it drops low and skinny in summer and fall (and often goes dry east of Yellville) yet can rise into a dangerous torrent within hours after heavy rain.

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87.0 miles Class I Ozarks - North-Central Arkansas (Marion & Boone counties)

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mi 40
Upper Pyatt Access
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mi 40
Lower Pyatt Access
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mi 47
Snow Access
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mi 50
Brooksher Float Campsite
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mi 53
Mark Oliver Access
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mi 58
Crooked Creek Gravel Bar Camping Area
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mi 59
Kelly's Slab Access
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mi 63
Yellville City Park Access
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mi 81
Lower Crooked Creek Access
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