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Oak Mountain State Park, et. al: A Campground Review and Van Woes

August 25, 2022 by kokotg 1 Comment

site 48B at Oak Mountain

travel dates: June, 2022 Ah, August! That time when, for us Georgians, it is still unbearably hot and muggy outside and yet summer is officially over and everyone must return to real life. We’re back from our mostly wonderful eight week long summer trip, which we dubbed Mountains, Mountains, and More Mountains for reasons that […]

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Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park Campground Review (and Dallas, briefly)

June 1, 2018 by kokotg 2 Comments

Travel dates: July 21-24, 2017 It’s here! It’s here! It’s the very last post about our summer 2017 cross country road trip! Except I’m going to do an indexing kind of post so people can find everything easily now that they’re all written. Because there are a lot of posts. Dallas is getting short shrift […]

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Birmingham, Alabama: The Remains of Industry Tour, Part 2

February 26, 2016 by kokotg 4 Comments

When we left off, we had just finished our first day in Birmingham with a visit to an old quarry, and we were all set to see more industrial relics the next day. But first up on Sunday, we checked out Oak Mountain State Park, a large state park about 20 miles south of Birmingham. […]

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Birmingham, Alabama with Kids: The Remains of Industry Tour

February 20, 2016 by kokotg 3 Comments

There’s something very….American about a city founded with the express purpose of becoming an industrial giant. Birmingham (named, confidently, for the industrial city in England) was founded in 1871 at the site of a planned railroad crossing in an area rich with iron, coal, and limestone–the three materials which, it just so happens, are the […]

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Filed Under: 52 Hike Challenge, Alabama, hiking Tagged With: 52hikechallenge, Alabama, Birmingham, hiking, history, hotels, museums

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