Little River Canyon
With the weekend quickly approaching and our new desire to visit parks and acquire passport stamps, Damon and I opened up our Explorer Edition Passport book and started making plans for a day trip. Given multiple choices within driving distance, we reviewed our options and decided upon Little River Canyon.
Damon and I were not anticipating the beauty that we saw in Fort Payne that day. We were driving along on a main road (a somewhat relative term given this is not a big city), and did not expect to see something so breathtaking just off the side of the highway. As you will see in some of the pictures, the road we drove on that passes over the river, just before the falls.
After spending some time at the falls and taking pictures, we headed toward the Visitor Center to get our stamp. On the way, we saw signs for DeSoto State Park. We had heard of the park and DeSoto Falls before, so we decided to visit this park before heading home as well. No stamp at that park, but it, too, was very pretty. After DeSoto Park, we started to head home to Atlanta, not realizing at this point that we’d be stopping at the Trail of Tears before reaching our final destination.
National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/liri/
