We left Newnan on Tuesday, headed to Fall Creek Falls in Spencer, TN.
We were starving as we came through Rome, GA & had plans to grab a burger at Wendy's but there wasn't any parking so we headed on up the road. We came across this restaurant - Sam's Burger Deli which wound up being the highlight of this leg of our journey. It's owned by a Purple Heart recipient & had a lot of Veteran customers. As we parked, we saw signs that this was also a Harvest Host stop (we aren't members).
We got to the campground and I thought I had reserved a FHU site (#B77) but it was the only one NOT FHU in that loop. It was narrow & neighbors were too close to our liking. It also had a bad slope front to back & we couldn't lower the hitch enough to make it level. We had to set up the fence at the back end of the camper. The picnic table was at the back end, quite a bit away from the pad & fire pit was at least 25 yards away.
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| Steps extended as far as possible. |
We were supposed to stay for 3 nights but I googled the next stop & our site was available for a day early so we decided to leave. Went to the park office & they agreed to refund our last night's stay. Since we were leaving the next day we decided to ride the scenic loop to see waterfalls.
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| 1/4 mile down, extremely steep. Those are people at the bottom. |
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| Hike down to the Falls. |
There was a Mennonite community just down from the CG. We stopped at the Brockdell Produce stand, Oak Ridge Market & Country Fabrics (quilt store). We bought some hand pies, eggs & a couple yards of fabric. When coming out of the Market we saw a bunch of horse & buggies & it was obvious that the school day had just ended.
When we got back, we packed up so we could get an early start the next day.
I had high hopes for this CG but because of our bad site & close proximity to neighbors it was just not the CG for us.
Part 3 coming up.
Notes:
Locals park their campers & come & go to work, school, etc. & come back to spend the night.
Severe storm damage (April 2023) in the park itself. Logs felled by the road which the local Mennonite sawmill was picking up.
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