I often wanted to go do this as a child growing up in Arkansas.

In hindsight, each time I would bring it up my parents would have something of an "oh shit, anything but that!" reaction and would quickly distract me with some other activity or suggestion, and to date I've never been.

I'm certain that to them, the suggestion was essentially to drive several hours out and back to play in the dirt.

(this article is well-written and quite interesting, btw)