The Cliff House Inn

There aren’t a lot of tourist attractions along Scenic Route 7 any more. Dogpatch U.S.A. is closed, as is Booger Hollow. The Cliff House, which I’ve drive past many times, is still there but I’d never stopped—until today.

We drove up for lunch. We were also planning on visiting some stores in Jasper, but the town is closed on Wednesdays.

Anyway, there were people at only one other table when we arrived at the Cliff House, although a few others came later. We picked a table in the corner where we could get a good view out over the valley. A territorial hummingbird kept us company right outside the window.

From the rim of the “canyon” to the Buffalo River at the bottom, it’s 1,414 feet, making this the deepest canyon in the Ozark Mountains. Having moved here from Colorado, that doesn’t seem all that impressive, but it is pretty. The food was good and the view was impressive enough that we are considering making this a go-to place when we have out-of-state visitors. If we have out-of-state visitors.

We also stopped right up the road at Scenic Point where there is a tower on the canyon rim next to a mediocre gift shop. How mediocre? I went in with a itch to buy something and came out empty handed. But we still climbed the tower.

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