2020 Georgia – part 16: Fort Yargo State Park’s trails – taking a hike
On our next 3-state park trip, we started out at Fort Yargo State Park just about 80 miles due east of where we live. Like our last park, this one...
2020 Georgia – part 17: Fort Yargo State Park’s history – the beginnings of forts in America
This park takes us back in time to after the Revolutionary War and before the turn of the century (1800) as the colonists started to become a new nation and...
2020 Georgia – part 18: Virginia Bryant State Park – one of Georgia’s best kept secrets, a tie to one of baseball’s greats
Nestled in the rolling hills of Georgia’s upper Piedmont, between the Atlantic coastal plain and the main Appalachian Mountains (stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in...
2020 Georgia – part 19: James H. (Sloppy) Floyd State Park, lakes created from mine pits
A park name that includes the nickname Sloppy? Of course we just had to come here. Once here, we started learning about the mining for marble that happened in this...
2020 Georgia – part 20: James Floyd State Park, a walk becomes a hike and mining for marble
Our exploring up to arriving at this park has taken us on walks rather than hikes; today that changes. The featured trail in this park is the Marble Mine Trail...