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If you are in this part of Alabama make sure to pay a visit to Batson Lake. Summer brings highs in the 90's to Batson Lake with nighttime lows in the 60's. Daytime highs throughout the wintertime are in the 50's with temperatures at Batson Lake dipping down into the 30's all through winter nights. If you get bored of Batson Lake, you could also stop at nearby Wilson Lake, and camping is available at City of Hoover RV Park. You can run the rapids of Yellowleaf
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| | Creek - North Fork in close proximity to Batson Lake, and after a long day outdoors Birmingham - Days Inn South/Hoover is a great site to spend a night or two.
Camp Branch is a great local stream; a lake nearby is Paradise Lake. A delightful location for whitewater paddling right next door to Batson Lake is Cahaba River; if you need a place to stay ST Regis Test Property Hotel is a magnificent choice. This lake is so wonderful.
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wet place commonly with a lot of rainfall; March is when you get the most rain here while October is generally the driest month. This lake is so wonderful. If you're here at Batson Lake and you like golf, you can visit Greystone Golf
and Country Club; there are plenty of people from Birmingham-Hoover here at Batson Lake. Whohoo, so many amusing things in one place! Batson Lake is peerless! If you came for an overnight stay Pelham Koa Kampground is a wonderful location to camp, and you can observe Little Valley Mountain from Batson Lake.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 33.40278
Longitude: -86.79667
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 12 miles away
Class II - 5.9 miles long (Lovick Bridge to Grants Mill) |
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 20 miles away
Class I-II - 7 miles long (US Route 11 to County Route 10) |
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KOA Birmingham South
 | Just stopped here on our way north from the Florida panhandle.? Great stopover spot, extemely convenient to I-65.? Clean, neat campground, great bathrooms and showers, friendly, well-informed staff, and the area has all the basics travelers like us are interested in---food, shopping, RV stores, food, food, etc.? I know this would also be a nice spot for a longer stay.... |
Cahaba River
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...austed 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 the pad and will take you on down river before you realize it. Just check the weather and the USGS sites for the water level and better yet go look at it at the put in and the take out to get a better idea if you can. The Cahaba is a great rive... |
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* Birmingham South Days Inn is in the center of everything that is happening in the Birmingham area * Set at the tip of the Appalachian Mountain Range only minutes away from downtown Birmingham * Majo...
