Bass Pro Shop

The store is amazing. It is huge, has stuffed creatures displayed throughout, a large aquarium, a waterfall, various other water features, and a snake tank. Santa comes at Christmas because he knows it is the best store on earth, kinda.

The web page is tacky, but the store is not.

Everything you need for hunting, fishing, boating, water skiing, water sports, camping, & shooting. Lots of stuff for: golfing, other sports, gifting, eating and cooking.

Then there is apparel. Clothes for all of the above activities and just regular clothes. Some very nice things in the ladies & men's departments. And shoes, athletic shoes, casual shoes, boots and slippers. There is an entire camo department if you want to decorated your house or bedroom in camouflage. Yep, there really is.

And boats, lots of boats: bass boats (duh), party barges, pontoons, row boats, canoes, kayaks, speed boats and many other boats that I don't know what they are.

Nice restaurant with another aquarium behind the bar. There is a buffet with all you can eat crab legs every night. However, I know from experience, that you should eat more than just crab legs because an hour later you are hungry again. It takes a lot of crab legs to make enough meat for a meal.

The outdoors - indoors - at Wonders of Wildlife. With over 225 species of live animals in natural habitats, Wonders of Wildlife offers the unique opportunity to see nature in an up-close and personal way.

A beautiful facility in a gorgeous area of the Ozarks. Expensive, but I'm told, worth it.

Bass Pro Shops has become one of America’s premier outdoor retailers with destination outdoor retail stores across America and Canada, serving over 75 million sportsmen a year. Each store is unique and offers a truly unforgettable shopping experience - as close to the Great Outdoors as you can get indoors!

A major portion of their business is derived from catalog sales around the world. Between the store and the catalog facility, Bass Pro employs a lot of folks in the Springfield area.

Bass Pro Shops/TRACKER racing team are on NASCAR's biggest stage: the chase for the Nextel Cup Series.