Bankhead National Forest – Corinth Park, AL

Corinth at Bankhead, AL

Bankhead National Forest has three parks within the National Forest. We are staying at the Corinth Park where the RV sites are full hook-up and very nice. The other recreation areas don’t have full hook-up. One has water and electric RV sites the other is tent camping only – not sure which has what – I forget! We got up Tuesday morning and went for a walk on one of the trails. It was a little too early for Bud, see pic. Later we drove to the nearest town, Double Springs, for fuel. It is an extremely small town but the diesel price was the lowest we’ve seen on this trip, $4.30 per gallon (we have paid up to $4.79)! The primary means of employment are the forestry, mobile home and window manufactures. The temperature is 90+ so we are working on getting acclimated for Brooksville!

On an evening walk we saw deer, turkey, gray fox (2), bunnies and leather winged bats. There is a big leafed tree here called a Cowcumber Tree. It is in the magnolia family. The camp manager (host) told us it gets a long bud that resembles a cucumber then it blooms into a gigantic magnolia type bloom. I looked it up on the internet and the bloom is about one to two feet across. The manager’s is a very nice Georgia man named Warren and his wife’s is very nice also, her name is Jessie.

We have used our walking sticks aka, flick-a-stick - web remover, quite a bit on our journey. Trace made the one Buddy uses, it's made from a laurel oak and has a real nice crook for a handle. Buddy made mine from a sparkle berry bush it fits my hand perfect.

We’ll be leaving here in the morning, heading to Foscue COE Park in Demopolis, Al. We’ve heard good things about Foscue. Probably one or two more parks before returning to Annutteliga Hammock (home)!