#312 Tallulah Gorge State Park

Several years ago, we were in Franklin North Carolina and my sister Sheila suggested if we wanted to see something nice, we should go to Tallulah Gorge State Park.

At the time it was India and I and the two kids and we visited there and the thing that we remembered quite clearly there were steps involved.

I believe this was prior to India's hip operation and I think it actually took her out like wow you know like maybe I got a problem with my hip. By the time we were done she could hardly walk.

We went down to the gorge the deep part of the canyon which is Tallulah Gorge. You get there going down a series of stair steps and I know they say somewhere how many are but I'm just going to guess like 800 sounds about right.

When you go down to the bottom and you get to a really interesting swinging suspended bridge and you can visit with the river and then you go back up for 500 steps. That's your excitement for today.

Ben was like the athlete and I like to act like I am so we did okay but it like to killed my little bride. I think Savannah was pretty like yucky about the whole thing too.

Back to the present, we checked into it and they did have a site so we took it and we got lucky because it was a pretty little spot back over in the back. I just thought it was weird how they kept saying I don't think you can get in there and it was like a hundred feet long.

The spot was fine but something very strange happened with my trailer brake assembly. When I was trying to back in it seemed like I was having a hard time pushing the camper backwards. It didn't make any sense and I was hoping it didn't mean anything. It turns out the brakes on the camper were locking up whenever I tried to backup.

Even now month later I haven't figured out what's causing this but the only way to handle it is to disconnect the tether from the truck to the camper when you're backing up. Otherwise the camper brakes lock up when you're in reverse.

We settled in and we went to the visitor center and enjoyed a nice hike along the river which was a little bit more strenuous than we expected.

I had promised India we would skip the whole steps for it because it was a bit much.

We learned on our first visit and were reminded this time that the Wallenda family had walked a tightrope across the gorge early on back in the 60s.

They still have the towers on either side of the gorge where the tightrope was connected and that was interesting.

Tallulah is in Georgia and it's just below my sister Sheila's house in Franklin. Her home is maybe an hour away off North Carolina HWY 441.

We did our two nights here and moved on next to see big sis.

338 Jane Hurt Yarn Rd, Tallulah Falls, GA 30573