Ep. 161: Lookout Mountain | Georgia Tennessee Alabama RV travel camping hiking kayaking

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Lookout Mountain lies partially in all three states: Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, rising to nearly 2,400 feet above sea level. It's a broad, steep-sided flat-topped mountain reaching north to the doorstep of Chattanooga, and is home to tourist attractions including the caves of Ruby Falls, the heavily advertised "City of Rocks", an incline railway, Civil War points of interest, and a hang-gliding school, along with Cloudland Canyon State Park.

In this episode we'll camp at the East Rim Campground in the State Park, hike the Waterfalls Trail which descends a 40-degree slope via a 600-step staircase to reach Cherokee Falls and Hemlock Falls, hike a portion of the five-mile West Rim Loop Trail with the family of Tom Bradshaw of the YouTube channel CampTravelExplore, move to the Marion County Park campground on Nickajack Lake and do some kayaking, and venture into Ruby Falls Cave to see if their 140-foot underground waterfall is worth the price of admission. Meanwhile, the Bradshaws check out nearby DeSoto Falls, just across the state line in Alababa's DeSoto State Park.

CHAPTERS

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:54 Cloudland Canyon/Hiking the Waterfalls Trail
• 5:23 Hiking the West Rim Trail with CampTravelExplore
• 9:44 Cloudland Canyon State Park - East Rim Campground
• 11:12 Marion County Park Campground 14:01 Kayaking Nickajack Lake
• 16:18 Ruby Falls
• 18:44 DeSoto Falls
• 19:05 The Dyrt PRO
• 21:32 Wrap-up

FOR MORE INFORMATION

• Cloudland Canyon State Park https://gastateparks.org/CloudlandCanyon
• Marion County Park http://marioncountypark.com/
• CampTravelExplore on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/camptravelexplore
• Chosen Adventures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBOaTiqmcL-2HdMmyCbIwnQ
• Ruby Falls https://www.rubyfalls.com/
• DeSoto State Park https://www.alapark.com/parks/desoto-state-park

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Grand Adventure is the creative video outlet for Marc Guido, a 50-something outdoors enthusiast who first added an RV to his gear bag in spring 2017. Outside of ski season he travels the U.S. in his fifth wheel RV trailer with his lovely wife Patricia, and their overly-caffeinated Labrador retriever Zoe. During winter, they base their RV in Salt Lake City for the skiing.