Cheaha State Park named best in Alabama; Let’s just call it an honest mistake

Cheaha State Park named best in Alabama; Let’s just call it an honest mistake

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By Fran Thompson
We’ll just call it an honest mistake, and going ahead and give props to Cheaha State Park (below) on being named Alabama’s best state Park in a recent issue of Conde Nast Traveler titled “The Best
Set atop Alabama’s highest point, 2,407-foot Cheaha Mountain, Cheaha State Park is surrounded by the Talladega National Forest. Besides being just an hour east of the Birminghm suburbs, the park offers an abundance of creature comforts such as a wonderful restaurant, stone cabins, a old school lodge and Native American history and Civilian Conservation Corps museums. Named by the Native American Creek nation, in Muskogee language, chaha means “high place.”
Granted Cheaha is spectacular. So, let’s just say we have two great state parks. One at the highest point and the other at sea level on two miles of white sandy beaches right here on Pleasure Island.
Besides the brand new and environmentally groud breaking Lodge, with its three in house restaurnts, Gulf State Park (above) offers free bicyles for use on 20 plus miles of paved trails, or bicyle to Woodside Restaurant for a burger and games on the restaurant’s outside play area. Woodside also features live music every night on the backyard stage. Visitors to Gulf State Park can paddle, fish or swim in either the Gulf or Lake Shelby. GSP also incudes the Interpretaative Nature Center and Learning Campus, two swimming pools, a fishing pier, and a butterfly garden.