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Bankhead National Forest
Find your sweet home in Alabama’s Bankhead National Forest where skies really are so blue! With 16 wilderness areas to explore, places like the Sipsey Wilderness offer adventure and solitude out on the trails. Horseback riding and bike trails are a rad way to get miles under your feet, while spotting wildflowers and quail galore. Looking to cool off? There’s plenty of fishing and swimming for water lovers, or take shade under Bee Branch, a 500 year old poplar tree that stand majestically in the park. Over 150 miles of hiking trails are a show in all seasons and with sick campgrounds that have all the hook-ups you’re sure to return to Bankhead time and time again.
Find your sweet home in Alabama’s Bankhead National Forest where skies really are so blue! With 16 wilderness areas to explore, places like the Sipsey Wilderness offer adventure and solitude out on the trails. Horseback riding and bike trails are a rad way to get miles under your feet, while spotting wildflowers and quail galore. Looking to cool off? There’s plenty of fishing and swimming for water lovers, or take shade under Bee Branch, a 500 year old poplar tree that stand majestically in the park. Over 150 miles of hiking trails are a show in all seasons and with sick campgrounds that have all the hook-ups you’re sure to return to Bankhead time and time again.
Activities in the park
4 campgrounds in Bankhead National Forest
Just relax at the Houston Recreation Area where mostly standard sites with lake views will ease you into the laid-back southern charm of the lazy Lewis Smith Lake and the calming effect of the sound of dozens of waterfalls trickling in the background. Find your center in the middle of Lewis Smith Lake dozing on a fishing boat. A tug on the line an Read more...
Carefully pack the singing bowls and meditation mats before heading out to the Brushy Lake Recreation Area in the William Bankhead National Forest in Alabama. Geographically a low plateau of Brindley Mountain, layers of limestone and sandstone give way to majestic, mineral-rich, singing waterfalls. Stay awhile and listen to the alive sounds of nat Read more...
From the minute you enter the Clear Creek Recreation Area you’ll be scheming how to stay a little longer. Known as “The Land of a Thousand Lakes,” Clear Creek is within the Sipsey Wilderness area, an area visibly marked by its geographical makeup. Sandstone and limestone layers cut with streams create the mystic waterfalls, and old-growth forests Read more...
Decidedly a nice place to stay, the Corinth Recreation Area is a small gem within the Sipsey Wilderness of William Bankhead National Forest. Campsites are just a short hike to Lewis Smith Lake where a boat launch and 100-person pavillion rave about a good time. Venture into the surrounding old-growth forest and stop for a PB&J next to one of t Read more...
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