Tallulah Gorge State Park

Tallulah Gorge State Park

Since the Corona virus showed itself our trip has been focused on outdoor and nature type outings. Sure should be in better shape when this thing is finally over.

Today we headed for Tallulah Gorge State Park, which has a pretty intense walk of over 1000 stairs from the top of the gorge to the bottom and up again. There are six waterfalls to view along the way. 

Not a whole lot to say about the park except two tight rope walkers made the 1000′ trek across the gorge 750′ above the river, one in 1886 and one in 1970. The towers used to attach the tight rope are still in the park.

On the way home we passed by some busses that were bizarrely painted along the highway. We pulled over and researched it and it’s known as the school bus graveyard. This guy has a vehicle junkyard with a bunch of school busses and he decided to line the property with the busses to prevent vandalism. Somehow that attracted artists (need I say more?) that got permission to paint the busses. The pictures say it all.

The tower they used to set up the tight rope
Karl Wallenda in 1886
The foot bridge across the river
Looking down at the river from the visitor center. We walked all the way down and up again

Obviously not meant for us
The walk down

Crossing the foot bridge
Bottom of the hike
Time to hike back up. This time on the other side of the bridge
Looking across to the other side of the water to the original peak
Queen of the mountain
Tower on the other side
Tallulah Falls dam
Crazy little mock town with a bar and gift shop

Bar tender. No one to serve
School bus graveyard

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