Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Another COE Park--White Oak Creek Recreation Area, Eufaula, Alabama

Well, it looks like I've done it again. We were heading home and I forgot to update the blog. Bob and I had a great time in the Eufaula, Alabama, area. We used White Oak Creek as our base to explore two state parks in Georgia and a Georgia brewery.

Our first trip was to Kolomoki Mounds State Park. It is a nice park with plenty of hiking trails. As usual, geocaching was on our list of things to do in the park. We hiked several trails and found all the caches that were active.
The park is based around mounds created by Native Americans many years ago. It is also one of the Georgia parks where you can earn the stair climber badge.
The next outing was to Providence Canyon Campground. This park exists due to poor farming practices in the 1800s. The farmers didn't know to terrace the rolling hills and the soil washed away leaving the canyon.
The views were totally unexpected for this part of Georgia.

After hiking Providence Canyon we made a stop in Omaha, Georgia. Yes, that's right, Omaha. There is a microbrewery located in Omaha. They brewery doesn't serve food, but there was a food truck located behind the building.

The last stop on our trip was Payne's Prairie State Park just south of Gainesville, Florida.
 Of course, we visited Swamp Head Brewery while we were near Gainesville.
We stayed for two nights as we had an appointment to get the speedometer changed out of Sol. The original only worked about 20% of the time and it was covered under our Freightliner warranty. The change only took 5 minutes and we were on the road home.

Once again, Bob and I enjoyed our time on the road and were looking forward to our next big adventure.

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