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A visit to Higginbothams Lake is always a good idea. If you need a place to stay Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Trussville, Al is a great choice. You'll need more than a day to discover everything Higginbothams Lake has to offer, you can camp at Holiday Travel Park. What a location this is for outdoors people. Hopewell Lake is not far at all from Higginbothams Lake, and if you get bored of Higginbothams Lake you could also take a look at close by Lake Sueann.
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| | This lake is so wonderful. At Higginbothams Lake during the summer highs are in the 80's. Throughout the dark hours of summer temperatures plunge down into the 60's. The winter comes with highs in the 40's; winter nights come with lows in the 20's to Higginbothams Lake. A large amount of precipitation falls at Higginbothams Lake; the month with most of the rain is March, and the driest of the months is October. A round of golf at nearby Cumberland Lake | |
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Country Club is a brilliant way to kill some time; dry warm beds await you at Jameson Inn Trussville. Paddling on Warrior River - Blackburn Fork is so much fun, and unsurprisingly, A visit to Dean Gap is always fun. There's so
much to do here at Higginbothams Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Country View RV Park is a pleasant spot for that, and you're sure to come across some smiling folks from Birmingham-Hoover here. This lake is so wonderful. Whitewater paddling is perfect on Gurley Creek, and a lake nearby is Spring Valley Lakes.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 33.765 Longitude: -86.67667
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Gurley Creek, Blount / Jefferson CountyCounty, 1 miles away Class II-III - 3.5 miles long (Narrows Road to State Route 79) |
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 11 miles away Class I-II - 7 miles long (US Route 11 to County Route 10) |
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Cahaba River
 | 14 miles away ... a 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 ... |
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