The Georgia Department of Natural Resources will be offering overnight backpacking clinics most Saturday to Sunday’s from March 13th to November 7th this year. The overnight trips depart at 2pm from Panola Mountain State Park.
This over-night guided trip will take you to breathtaking vistas, pine savannahs, hardwood bottomlands and water crossings. The five-mile hike will include tracking skills, wilderness survival skills, useful plants, a night hike and hands on experience with backpacking skills for the new and well-seasoned backpackers. Backpackers must supply their own gear. Trips depart from the nature center. They recommend arriving 30 minutes before each program and you must register in advance by calling 1- 770-389-7801. The cost is $30 plus $5 for parking.
Panola Mountain State Park is just 18 miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia on Highway 155. This unusual park was created to protect a 100-acre granite monadnock (mountain) often compared to Stone Mountain and Arabia Mountain. Minimally developed, Panola Mountain shelters rare plants of the Piedmont region.
While the park does not have a campground the Atlanta South RV Resort is nearby and bills itself as one of the finest RV resorts in the South.
Image: Spring flowers at Panola State Park
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