Hiking Alabama

HIKING ALABAMA,  Oak Mountain State Park Day 6  Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Yesterday was moving day so not much to report.  Did the wash and waited out the rain.  Got on the road about 10 and got into Oak Mountain around 12.  It’s actually nearest the town of Pelham which is right outside of Birmingham.  We are in site 20.  It’s a pretty good site, long enough for the trailer and not right on the road.  The best sites are the ones back in the Cul de Sac.  Those are sites 24 through 30.  Almost all them are excellent with little traffic, close to the bath, and all have sewer.  We have sewer too and not that much more traffic since the dead end is the only place to go from here.  Bathrooms are very clean.  There is only one shower but it is large and clean, with nice benches and a heater overhead.  We do have a shower in the camper, but if we use theirs we save propane and actually have a little more...

HIKING ALABAMA - HUNTSVILLE Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, AL Day 1  Friday, October 10, 2014 We drove in from Brusly to Monte Sano State Park last night.  Left home about 6 am and got here around 5:30.  Long day but uneventful.  Bailey slept most of the way.  She’s a great traveler.  Once we pulled in I remembered it from a trip I took Evan and Eric on back in 2007 (I think 2007).  Anyway we went up to Fall Creek Falls in Tennessee and stopped here on the way back to visit the Rocket Center in Huntsville.  Going back there in a couple of days so more about that later. After breakfast this morning started out on the North Plateau Loop.  The trail guide lists it as a 1.2 mile loop but we were tracking it on both our phones and it measured about 2.5 miles.  It was a very scenic trail, mostly level with no major elevation changes, but enough ups and downs to make it interesting. We started out on the Tea Garden path,...