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"Sweet Home Alabama" is home to this charming southern trail that connects to Georgia's Silver Comet Trail.
The 33 mile, paved Chief Ladiga (pronounce w/ a long i) Trail is wonderful. The 100 mile combination of the Silver Comet Trail and Chief Ladiga Trail is reputed to be the longest continual non-motorized path in the country. It's amazing how much is packed into this 33 mile trail as it wanders through forests, wetlands, hills, a university campus, and...
Trips
We started the trail pretty late around 12:00am. The weather was awesome, it was that time of the year when leaves just began falling.The first part of the trail is all downhill but not so difficult. The trail is pretty smooth with just some rocks. We reached Hurricane creek in about 1hr because we had to catch up with our group ahead of us. We passed the bridge and we walked a...
.JPG "Peavine Falls (4). (Fungo Hollow, Alabama, United States) Photo")
.JPG "Peavine Falls (3). (Fungo Hollow, Alabama, United States) Photo")
This is only the outbound track of an Out-and-Back hike. Start the hike where Bunyen Hill Rd ends at Borden Creek bridge, accessible off Lawrence County Rd 6. Marked on maps and a very few trail markers as trail 200, this was an absolutely beautiful walk with the creek gushing full and several waterfalls due to recent rains. I made it all the way downsteam to where the creek joins the Sipsey Fork River -...
Hiking in Riddle Creek & Quillan Creek
Kinlock (historical), Alabama, United States
Hiking | 4.1 miles
Hiking | 4.1 miles
A beautiful area. Walking in creeks in the Sipsey Wilderness can be quite dramatic with high walls looming along side, but it can get tiring and treacherous. A 4 mile walk will feel like twice that.This track begins as dry walking along Riddle Creek before reaching Quillan Creek, changing to old shoes and walking upstream. Current was not strong. It got deep enough in a few spots that most of us cheated and took...
Privately Owned land that is open to the public for hiking at no cost. A delightful owner that enjoys sharing this land and his knowledge of the area including geologic and archieological history. Once you've descended into the canyon, much of the hike is along a scenic stream. Before that, you'll encounter a 50ft. waterfall and views of the heavily forested canyon from the ridgetop. This track is one-way into the canyon for a picnic lunch,...
I started my trip from the Land Trust parking lot. I took the Bluffline Trail from the Northern side of the parking and walked all the way till the intersection with Amandale Trail. The first part of the hike is pretty easy, the trail is smooth and flat. From the intersection with Amandale Trail I took a little side trip, on Amandale Trail, just to check out the path which is pretty...
Hiking Along Cahaba River During the Lilly Bloom
West Blocton, Alabama, United States
Hiking | 5.1 miles
Hiking | 5.1 miles
This easy hike along the Cahaba River's West shore falls within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge. An ideal time for this walk is during the mid-May blooming of the beautiful Cahaba Lilly. My track includes a period of wading in the river; other than crossing a small 6 inch deep Caffee Creek, getting in the water on this route is optional. We parked nearly 2 miles upstream and hiked along the road and...
What a beautiful day! A few trees had begun to turn billiant yellows and reds with more to come. Temperature was dead-on perfect. No bug problem. Streams were still trickling over falls in some places. It's going to be hard for me to be critical about anything in this setting... synopsis:This area is part of the Talledega National Forest. My path is an out-and-back; it would be easy to put cars at both...
A beautiful 6 hour hike mostly along Gillespie Creek. Numerous wildflowers. The Indian tomb and marker tree is not to be missed. There are two larger falls and a couple of lesser falls, not captured here, in the box canyon. Better pictures can be found at: http://kelcom.zenfolio.com/indiantombhollow .
Three Caves and Dry Falls - Montesano State Park
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Hiking | 5.1 miles
Hiking | 5.1 miles
Summit of Cheaha Mountain - Alabama Highpoint
Elder (historical), Alabama, United States
Hiking | 0.1 miles
Hiking | 0.1 miles
Summited this one with my wife and bulldog, Zoe.
Westminster Hikes the Desoto Scout Trail
Desoto State Park, Alabama, United States
Hiking | 2.0 miles
Hiking | 2.0 miles
A nice family hike with Westminster Presbyterian Hiking Club. Started out not really knowing where the trailhead was. Went back to the lodge, where one of the park staff told us to just walk behind the cabins to get to the scout trail. We had an interesting trip from behind cabin 19 through a rarely used steep and rocky trail that got us by the river bank and eventually...
What is the Walls of Jericho?The Walls of Jericho is a 750-acre natural area that is within the 8,943-acre Bear Hollow Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA), which is contiguous to the Skyline WMA in Alabama. The “Walls” is an impressive geological feature that forms a large bowl shaped amphitheater. Embedded in the limestone are bowling ball size holes from which water drips and spouts, creating a unique water feature. This amphitheater gives rise...
We started from the hikers parking lot. There are two ways to find the trail from here. One is just crossing the street and taking the North Plateau loop, the other is to turn right on the street, walk a few yards and turn left on the trail (it should be signed). We did the first option. The trail took us to the overlook point (reachable with the car too), the sky...
I'm working on this as well as placing the pictures in the correct location. I'll post it soon.
Great Place to Hike after or before Camping. This state park is a hidden gem. The trail is well marked and a Great 1.5-2 hr hike
We took the McCay Hollow trail from the pavilion south of the parking lot. The first part is particularly steep. Right on our left at the beginning of the trail we saw the Blue Spring waterfalls, very dry due to the season. We went down in the valley, the trail then follows the river crossing it some times. Because of time constraints instead of following the McCay Hollow trail up to O'Shaughnessy point we...
walking upstream in Collier Creek.This entire walk was in the creek - shin to thigh deep. It took our large outdoor group so long to get accustom to this kind of hiking that my GPS unit died early on and I plotted the last part of this trip manually (so the stat info will not be accurate).
