May 8th, We left FDR Park and next is Cloudland Cayon State Park

Today we left Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park and drove to Cloudland Canyon State park. This was a good example of why you do not want to just take what the GPS tells you. It had us going through Atlanta and Chattanooga today. We talked to a ranger at FDR park and she said to just go up route 27. So I looked on the map and it made sense. I did find out that if you tell your GPS not to travel on highways it will find a route. It did and it was 20 minutes longer and 40 miles shorter. Very nice drive across the hills of north west Georgia. Cloudland Canyon State park is beautiful.  It is just below Chattanooga and the beginning of the Lookout mountains. They have had 13 inches more than normal rain this month. That has made the falls the best they have been for years. In the pics you will see what we mean.

The Canyon is wide. You can see a waterfalls across the canyon.

A little better look at the waterfalls across the canyon. The ranger said that it usually does not flow, but because of all the rain it is flowing.

Another view of the canyon.

The falls is behind me.



There are two falls on the "Falls Trail."  This is the upper one called Hemlock falls it is a 60 foot drop. The lower one is the Cherokee Falls and it is 90 feet.



The many falls make this place very enjoyable.

The Cherokee falls was fantastic. The climb down to them a little strenuous, but when did you go up and down 1200 steps?

Me and my girl made it

Tweety is enjoying his last camp site of the trip. If you look closely you can see some old guy coming down the slide.

Hey I had to test it for all the kids coming this weekend to the park.

Tweety is still hitched and ready for his long run to Cincinnati in the morning.