I recently discovered that just about the entire Chattahoochee River corridor from Buford Dam to Atlanta is a series of parks, full of trails. The kids and I checked out the North Bowman's Island area after work today. They complained at first but before long they were having a blast.
No bikes :( Maybe not, but the trails have plenty of tire tracks on them.
The first bit of the trail goes through an area devastated by kudzu, turned briar patch. We'll be back for blackberries later in the year.
Fall-line trails on sandy soil. Lots of hoof prints, foot prints and tire tracks too. But apparently the traffic is light enough, the trails are in good shape.
Some bench-cut.
We found a cool overhanging rock.
With some "artifacts" nearby.
We ran into some deer too. There's one way back in the center of this photo, but it's hard to see.
On the southern end of the southern loop of the Northern Trail, almost every tree is one of these. Cool flowers, what are they?
Heading back.
We found the scattered bones of some small animal. Sharp teeth. A cat? An opossum?
A shoulder blade.
When we got back to the truck the sun was about to go down. The magic hour. We walked down a trail and scaled a near vertical rooty staircase to the river.
Sophie had a hard time getting down but an easy time climbing back up.
Woohoo! A good day. Time to go.
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