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During your trip to Lake Helen you'll meet some folks from Birmingham-Hoover for sure, and why not camp at City of Hoover RV Park since you're here at Lake Helen. Birmingham Marriott is a glorious location to get some rest; lakes are such peaceful places, why not visit Lake Dixie. This lake is so wonderful. A delightful close by hotel is Drury Inn Suites Birmingham SE; playing golf is lots of fun at Greystone Golf and Country Club. Lake Helen is a pretty wet
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| | place frequently with a lot of precipitation; of all the months in a year March is the one with the most rain; the driest month of the year is October.
You just can't envision the amount of outdoors fun stuff the area close to Lake Helen has to offer. Float down the rapids of Cahaba River in a kayak; there are other places here than Lake Helen, for example Elmore Lake. For the duration of the summer months here at Lake Helen, high temperatures mostly reach | |
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the 80's. Once the sun is down it dips down to the 60's. The wintertime comes with highs in the 50's; overnight lows in the 30's for Lake Helen. An interesting thing to check out near Lake Helen is Lake Dixie Dam, and Pelham Koa Kampground
is a good local campground.
This lake is so wonderful. If you come at the right time of year, Yellowleaf Creek - North Fork offers some great whitewater, and swing by Coal Branch it's a splendid location to stop at.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 33.45278
Longitude: -86.71639
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 5 miles away
Class II - 5.9 miles long (Lovick Bridge to Grants Mill) |
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Cahaba River, Jefferson CountyCounty, 14 miles away
Class I-II - 7 miles long (US Route 11 to County Route 10) |
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Cahaba River
| ...our areas where the river produced what I would call true rapids. Most of these areas were short two to three foot falls followed by a run produced by the current. And one was just 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 you... |
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