We left Lake Catherine State Park in Hot Springs on January second and drove down to Tom Merrill Recreation Area Campground just northeast of Shreveport, Louisiana.
This is an Army Corps of Engineers campground; it has water and 50 amp electric, paved level sites and with our lifetime America the Beautiful Senior Pass it’s $7.50 a night.
We’re camped next to the now empty playground, and tonight there is only one other motorhome and the very nice hosts, so we have lots of privacy.
It has a pretty decent disc golf course (although there are lots of trees to hit) and we’ve played it twice.
As you can see from my map program, the campground is just below the dam for Bayou Bodcau Reservoir.
The first day I walked with Matey here below the dam and found this rather pretty cypress swamp.
Today we took the truck over to a boat launch on the reservoir side and found this rather pretty cypress swamp!
This is the view of the reservoir from the road on top of the dam. The brown trees are cypresses without their needles (they are deciduous and drop their needles in the winter). The green to either side is the pines on slightly higher ground.
We took a drive down Duck Dam Road to see if we could find some open water. Here we are returning along the road where the map showed it bordering the reservoir. The reservoir is to the left of the road, in case you can’t tell.
I love traveling and finding surprising places like this. That’s why I like to book us into parks we haven’t visited before. People sometimes ask me what my favorite campground is; I have to say it’s the next one.
On the Roam Again 
Quite a variety of things to see! Those cypress trees are so interesting! It looks like the grass growing along the road on top of the dam is covered with frost. Good you mentioned which side of that road the reservoir is on, because I sure can’t tell !
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