Cloudland canyon state park in Ga

We stayed in the West Rim campground this past spring in site #7:



It was beautiful and we loved the trails. :)

We got to the park on Rt 136 and had no problem.

I stayed on the east side earlier this year, yes, as noted the trees are trimmed up high and no bushes or ground hugging plants. Sites are spaced but you can see across the entire campground. Actually they didn't use RR ties, they used treated 8x8's or similar, very tight fitting, makes good walls when new, but should have gone ahead and used poured concrete and been done with it, In ten years the wood walls will look horrible and be rotting out. I picked the East side even though I was warned it had more traffic passing by going to the day use area, because it was much less of a hike to the waterfalls. I did walk the trail and bridge to the west side as far as the first yurt I came to but turned back there. Being on the side where the access to the water falls was helped, Its a couple of hundred steps down, plus trails to the upper fall, and over 600 steps down to the lower fall (not near as pretty). I was there in early June and there were few people there, only two or three RV's on the east side.

I approached from the East, LaFayette, highway 193 to 136 and 135 to the park. Yes, some grades on 136 but nothing horrible.

Road behind (to the left) the MH is the road to both the east campground where I am parked, and further on to the day use area. You can see how open it is in the pic. Host was extremely nice, but I realize that varies from season to season. I think this is site 70.



Cherokee Falls (upper falls), note guy and girl in the pic for size comparison.



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Retired JSO wrote:
Roads up to the park are fine. The west rim campground sites are more private. The east rim reminds me of the local KOA.

Agree with this 100%,

Thanks for all the replies it sounds like we need to get the west rim for more trees and privacy and that it is not as wide

Over the winter they will likely only have the front half of the West Rim campground open. Coming up the mountain from Trenton Ga (west side) GA-136 has 2 sharp turns about 1/3 of the way up. No problem making them, but they will make you slow way down.
"Temps are hard to predict in the winter down here. It may be lows in the teens with highs in the 30's, or it may be lows in the 40's and highs in the 70's." X2 on this, and temps on the mountain will be about 5 degrees colder than Trenton or Chattanooga.

Roads up to the park are fine. The west rim campground sites are more private. The east rim reminds me of the local KOA.

We visited there earlier this year. There are actually two different campgrounds inside the park. One seemed to tight, with sites close together, but the other was more "woodsy" and we liked it much better. Road was winding, but not too bad coming from Tennessee.

From Alabama side there is a steep climb up to the park. You should not have any problems with the climb. The sites are well separated but not private. Trees near the camp sites are trimmed up high and there is little ground cover. Temps will be variable. When we visited the area was very quiet. Sites are crushed limestone and lined with railroad ties.

site choice won't matter much because it's first come first serve, and they are now very strict about checking in. You can't check in till 1pm. They did this recently to stop the people who would show up at 8am when the office opens and then put their tag on a site, then bring their camper later. So I suggest you be first in line as specific sites cannot be reserved.

Thanks for the replies what are some of the better sites since you can't reserve a specific site