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The scenery at Cahaba Lake Dam near Cahaba Lake is gorgeous, and camping at Pelham Koa Kampground is always a great experience. One of the principal marks of the surroundings of Cahaba Lake is Little Valley Mountain, and get your pulse rate up on the glorious whitewater of Yellowleaf Creek - North Fork. This lake is so wonderful. A brilliant spot for whitewater paddling in close proximity to Cahaba Lake is Cahaba River. Through the days of summer here at Cahaba
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| | Lake, high temperatures typically get into the 90's. When the night sets in temperatures descend down into the 60's. Highs throughout the winter are generally in the 50's with temperatures at Cahaba Lake dipping down into the 30's during winter nights.
If you're here at Cahaba Lake and you like golf, you can have a look at Greystone Golf and Country Club, and you're most likely addicted to lakes, Altadena Lake is one of those nearby. If only every place | |
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had this much outdoors amusing things, what a great world it would be. Cahaba Lake is great enough to spend more than a day at, City of Hoover RV Park is a great local campground, and you'll meet a lot of people from Birmingham-Hoover
here. Dry warm beds await you at Courtyard Birmingham Colonnade, and why not have a look at nearby Dolly Brook if you're here at Cahaba Lake.
This lake is so wonderful. If you need a place to stay ST Regis Test Property Hotel
is a nice choice, and if you've had enough of Cahaba Lake, Wilson Lake is close by. Cahaba Lake is a pretty wet place mostly with a great deal of rain; March is when you get the most rain here; October meanwhile is the driest month.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 33.4075
Longitude: -86.76
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 9 miles away
Class II - 5.9 miles long (Lovick Bridge to Grants Mill) |
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 17 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
| ... long series of wide wave trains. I did enjoy the rapids but even a novice paddler with a few trips 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 ba... |
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2 miles away
