Cloudland Canyon Ga/Desoto State Park Ala
We are looking at making our first "mountain" trip from Louisiana. We religiously make the annual Mardi Gras trek to Disney World, but have never really gone anywhere else. How difficult is it to ...
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I went to Cloudland Canyon from the east, from Lafayette on 193 to 136 and then to the park, I left using 136 all the way back to Lafayette. The roads are good and you should have no problems. There are a few grades that will slow you down, but nothing terrible.
There are two campgrounds at the park, the East side, and the West side. There are walking trails and a foot bridge across. People told me to stay away from the east side because it is next to the road to the public day use areas, but I stayed there anyhow and found no problems, very scenic. There are two waterfalls. One is about 250 or so steps down to it, and the other is about 600 steps. I found the closer falls to be nicer, but did visit both, one the first day, and the other the second day before I left.
There is a very long rim trail on the west side, but I did not go far on it, was too wore out from all of those steps down to the waterfalls.
I am not familiar with the roads from the west side.
Charles
There are two campgrounds at the park, the East side, and the West side. There are walking trails and a foot bridge across. People told me to stay away from the east side because it is next to the road to the public day use areas, but I stayed there anyhow and found no problems, very scenic. There are two waterfalls. One is about 250 or so steps down to it, and the other is about 600 steps. I found the closer falls to be nicer, but did visit both, one the first day, and the other the second day before I left.
There is a very long rim trail on the west side, but I did not go far on it, was too wore out from all of those steps down to the waterfalls.
I am not familiar with the roads from the west side.
Charles
