title: Alabama Trails author: Sharpe, Patricia Stenger. publisher: University of Alabama Press isbn10 | asin: 0817306900 print isbn13: 9780817306908 ebook isbn13: 9780585201108 language: English Hiking--Alabama--Guidebooks, Backpacking--Alabama--Guidebooks, subject Trails--Alabama--Guidebooks, Alabama-- Guidebooks. publication date: 1993 lcc: GV199.42.A2S52 1993eb ddc: 796.5/1/09761 Hiking--Alabama--Guidebooks, Backpacking--Alabama--Guidebooks, subject: Trails--Alabama--Guidebooks, Alabama-- Guidebooks. Page i Alabama Trails Page ii What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior. Walt Whitman Page iii Alabama Trails Patricia Stenger Sharpe The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa & London Page iv Copyright © 1993 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 354870380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America designed by zig zeigler 2 3 4 5 6 02 01 00 99 98 The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sharpe, Patricia Stenger. 1948- Alabama trails / Patricia Stenger Sharpe. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8173-0690-0 1. HikingAlabamaGuidebooks. 2. BackpackingAlabamaGuidebooks. 3. Trails AlabamaGuidebooks. 4. AlabamaGuidebooks. I. Title. GV199.42.A2S52 1993 796.5'1'09761dc20 93-1640 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available The cover photograph by Chip Cooper is used by permission. Copyright 1993 Chip Cooper Cartography performed by The University of Alabama Cartographic Research Laboratory, Craig Remington, Supervisor. Jon Acker, Graduate Student Assistant Page v Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Trails in North Alabama 9 Muscle Shoals Reservation 11 Sipsey River Recreation Area 13 Joe Wheeler State Park 20 Honeycomb Creek Trail 23 Lake Guntersville State Park 25 Buck's Pocket State Park 32 Lookout Mountain Trail 37 Noccalula Falls Park 48 Monte Sano State Park 50 Madison County Nature Trail 54 River Mont Cave Historic Trail, Inc. 56 De Soto State Park 60 De Soto Scout Trail 65 Palisades Park 69 Point Mallard Park 72 Trails in East Central Alabama 75 Lake Chinnabee Recreation Area 77 Cheaha Wilderness Area 79 Cheaha State Park 84 Pinhoti National Recreation Trail System 88 Horseshoe Bend National Military Park 98 Horseshoe Bend Trail 100 Bartram National Recreation Trail 103 Chewacla State Park 106 Wind Creek State Park 109 Page vi Trails in West Central Alabama 113 Payne Lake Recreation Area 115 Lake Lurleen State Park 116 Moundville Archaeological Park 118 Ruffner Mountain Nature Center 120 Oak Mountain State Park 123 Rickwood Caverns State Park 128 Tannehill Historical State Park 131 Trails in South Alabama 137 Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge 139 Lakepoint Resort State Park 140 Conecuh National Forest 142 Gulf State Park 148 Chickasabogue Park 151 Suggested Readings 154 Index of Trails 155