PIGEON MOUNTAIN

PIGEON MOUNTAIN

After a soggy weekend, Monday (3-6-2023) was warm and inviting. We drove an hour and twenty minutes into north Georgia for our first exploration of the 20,637-acre Crockford-Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The nearest town to Pigeon Mountain’s...
Rock Island State Park

Rock Island State Park

Keith and Diane Logan stayed with us in Chattanooga on the way back to their summer home in Indiana from a winter condo in Florida. Heavy rains for three days before they arrived, enticed us to go back to Rock Island State Park. Rock Island suffered a dry spell during...
OLD STONE FORT

OLD STONE FORT

Thursday (6-2-22) we traveled to Manchester, TN to visit with Karen’s niece Savana and meet her new husband Josh for the first time. The young couple were on leave from the Navy base in San Diego, CA spending time with Josh’s parents near Nashville....
THE ELUSIVE JULIA FALLS

THE ELUSIVE JULIA FALLS

100-foot Julia Falls is inaccessible on foot. Flowing from a sheer bluff on the side of a vast canyon in the Tennessee River Gorge, a way to hike to the cataract remains uncharted. Just minutes from downtown Chattanooga, Signal Mountain is a maze of crossing roads,...