Kathey & I purchased the Tall Pines Cabins in 2020 and renamed it The Escape at Tall Pines. We named it that to reflect how we have always felt about it, an escape from the grind. A great friend of mine introduced me to this place a long time ago. The two of us used to come up to his uncles house in Calico Rock when he got his drivers license. In our early twenties we started tent camping in Cotter with our wives. A few years later we graduated to a camper. He and his wife discovered this Red's Landing area and invited Kathey and I to come stay. I think we have stayed at every VRBO or rental on this road. We fell in love with this place. They later bought and built right down the road from here. While staying with them one weekend, our buddy Ed that took care of this place notified us that the owner might be wanting to sell. We made a phone call and after several antagonizing nights wondering if we could just leave the city, we decided that this was our new home.
I love the people that our setting draws in, and listening to them being as excited as I was about catching fish, the shore lunch, and how damn cold the water was. It is great helping people make the memories that will last them til the next time and keep them coming back.
When Debra, the lady that helped us change our life, first purchased this place it was a vacant piece of ground with an old run down mobile home on it. Together with her two girls they built these buildings with their own hands. We are slowly doing modifications and adding small things here and there to hopefully make it the place you will want to revisit time after time.