Since I live in live here in Arkansas in the foothill of the Ozarks and about 70 miles from the Buffalo... I have to admit the scenery is beautiful :)  but I will still drive 1100 miles north to "get away"  ;)  

While there are a lot of trips on the Buffalo that are nice and some of them extended, most of the time if you try to do a nearby or popular float when there is water, you encounter many, many intoxicated college student and adults who seem have a limited vocabulary of word other than four letter words and few if any morals or sense!  That is one reason I rarely go any more and if I do I drive up that morning and leave at daylight to get away from the "wild ones" coming later.  

Bruce