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Do stop at Mountain Lake next to Alton Lake, it's a picturesque lake, and the scenery at Jefferson Memorial Gardens Dam is striking. While you're here at Alton Lake, you could also check out pretty Hall Lake, and if you want to play some golf, you're in luck because Roebuck Golf Course is close by. City of Hoover RV Park is a fine campground nearby. This lake is so wonderful. A tremendous site for whitewater paddling in close proximity to Alton Lake is Cahaba
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| | River, and there's some flowing water nearby, McCombs Branch is a stream you can visit during your stay.
And if that's not enough, there's a heap more to do in the vicinity of Alton Lake. Dry warm beds await you at Courtyard Birmingham Trussville, and the wonderful people of Birmingham-Hoover like to hang out nearby. Alton Lake is a wet place that gets a great deal of precipitation; of all the months in a year March is the one with the most rain; October on the | |
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other hand is the driest. If you came for an overnight stay Holiday Travel Park is a splendid place to camp, and if you need a place to stay Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites TRUSSVILLE is a tremendous choice.
Throughout the
summertime here at Alton Lake, high temperatures ordinarily get into the 80's with night lows in the 60's. All through the wintertime highs are usually in the 50's, and winter nights come with lows in the 30's to Alton Lake.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 33.57917
Longitude: -86.63417
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| These outdoors activities are available near Alton Lake. |
| | Camp Grounds Near Alton Lake:
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| | Whitewater Near Alton Lake:
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 4 miles away
Class II - 5.9 miles long (Lovick Bridge to Grants Mill) |
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 5 miles away
Class I-II - 7 miles long (US Route 11 to County Route 10) |
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Gurley Creek, Blount / Jefferson CountyCounty, 12 miles away
Class II-III - 3.5 miles long (Narrows Road to State Route 79) |
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Hall Lake, Jefferson CountyCounty, 1 miles away |
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Cahaba River
| ...ps under their belt could handle this section. The only bad part was the long flats inbetween the rapids. I was lucky in that I timed my trip two days after a heavy rain so the current was nice and steady. If not for that I would have been exhausted from paddling across the flats. Luckily the scenery is good and there is plenty of wildlife to enjoy. The put in at Lovic bridge is tricky. Its a pretty steep grade and full of mud and sand. I ended up just getting in my canoe and slidding down the hill into the water. Thats a good way to flip so take a friend and you could rope your boat down much easier. The take out at Grants Mill is alot nicer. It has a nice gravel parking lot and a concrete ramp down to the river with a concrete docking pad in the water. You NEED to go look at the take out before you go on your trip though. The take out is nice but its positioned weirdly. You come down river to it after your last rapid and if the water is up or moving along well then you really have to back paddle to make the docking pad. Also if you miss the pad the current picks up dead even with t... |
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2 miles away
