Newbie Trip to South Fork and Spring River

[Charityn9]

Yes Cowper, what a great help you are! Luckily I am skilled with GPS and my brain has a pretty excellent navigation system of it's own. I will load those coordinates into my unit before we head out up there. I think camping at Spring River Oaks would be a good idea since that would be the take out anyway.
I am so ready for this trip I can hardly wait!
Any recommendations on other fun Arkansas rivers within a few hours of Memphis (that are good practice for my newbie sis)?
Also, I am going to look around this website for more on the rivers and maps and info. I hope it's not all in message boards, that there will be info on each river with general FAQ. K, I'm out to navigate this site :)

[Charityn9]

Oh and Woody,
Thanks as well, I would be angered by dummies with glass containers so I am happy that is enforced. Are there rangers or officers that patrol the Spring River on a regular basis? That would make me feel better about floating it for the first time. Not that it's the most fierce river, but ya know.

[coldspring]

I wouldn't say the Spring River is regularly patrolled. I think they mostly do checkpoints on busy Saturdays, and they don't go up and down the river, that I'm aware of. I was there this last Sunday, and it was pretty peaceful. Sundays usually aren't too bad. If the drunken river dorks that have no idea how to paddle can make it down alive, ya'll should be fine.