Amicalola Falls State Park

 

Amicalola Falls State Park was featured here before, but I had never stayed at the campground here before. As can be seen in the first post, this park is absolutely gorgeous. For anyone who likes waterfalls, the park is perfect and one can find plenty to do to keep themselves busy centering on the falls. Besides the falls (729 feet high!), the park also has a number of trails and other outdoor entertainment (zipline, anyone?). This is a smaller campground (24 sites) and there isn't a whole lot of privacy as these pictures show, but we still had a good time here.

Heritage Point Regional Park

 

Heritage Point Regional Park in Dalton, Georgia, is a lovely place to entertain yourself or just have a picnic. As you can see, the day was turning out to be picture perfect! There were few other people at the park during our lunch which seemed odd given the nice weather. The park has a wonderful open-air pavilion with a stage, concession area, picnic tables, and bathrooms.

Cloudland Canyon State Park and Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center

 

Cloudland Canyon State Park has been featured here before, although the fabulous views experienced here the first year we visited were traded for a much more damp experience in 2025. The first night we were here, a terrible severe thunderstorm dumped a considerable amount of rain over a 2 hour period of time with a tornado warning to make the event complete. The Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center we visited the following day was flooded and muddy, so we spent time looking around the park (Cloudland Canyon) where there wasn't flooding happening instead of hiking the trails that we originally planned. These pictures are from the morning after the big storm, which turned out very foggy to get the day started.

Grove Campground and Middle Fork Falls

 

Grove Campground is a beautiful campground located in southern Kentucky in Daniel Boone National Forest above Laurel River Lake about 10 miles from the Corbin exit at US 25W and I-75. It is heavily forested and the sites are arranged in two loops. It isn't a huge campground with only 40 sites. Unfortunately, I was only here for about an hour or so before it started pouring rain, so I only got 4 pictures.

Next on the camera roll is a Phillips 66 gas station in Tennessee along State Road 62. I thought the station was defunct, but it may still be open. The owner would be about 90 years old according to an online check, which may explain the rundown appearance of the station.

Last bit not least in this entry is Middle Fork Falls, just a few blocks from the gas station.