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Georgia Sierra Club is very active and has outing almost every weekend.

Georgia has one of the best state park systems in the entire United States.  The parks are generally very well maintained.  The Department of Natural Resources aggressively manages our timber and other natural resources.

    Georgia campgrounds are composed to two different types of camping areas.  These are Pioneer and Track campsites.  Pioneer campsites are a rustic campground, which has limited access to bathroom facilities and is generally secluded.  These sites are reached by a dirt road and reserved for tent campsites.  The best part of these sites is the ability put your tent pretty much anywhere that you want.  Track campsites are generally rows of campsites, which border a paved road.  These campsites can be used for trailers, popup campers and tents.  They have a variety of hookups from electricity, sewer and water.  The major downside of these sites are the pee gravel, which you have to put your tent on.  Here are some of the sites that we have visited.

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        Hard Labor Creek State Park is located about 45 miles east of metro Atlanta.  It has four pioneer campsites and a large number of track campsites.  Pioneer campsites 1-3 are located along the lake and are very nice.  I have camped at sites one and two.  Site three is very similar to site two.  These campsites have permanent firepits and plenty of firewood.  The downside is geese.  These blasted animals make all sorts of noise and tend to raid your campsites during the night.  Please heed the "do not feed the wildlife signs" - if you don't - then you will be sorry.  These darn birds will get into everything.  Make sure the lids to your trash cans are on tight.  If you don't, you will be picking all of your trash up all over again.     Pioneer campsite four is across the road from sites 1-3.  The rumor is this site has more ticks than pine straw.  Although I have only stayed at this site once, I didn't really see a huge problem with them.  There was more poison oak than in sites 1-3, but this is to be expected.  My favorite site is pioneer site 2.  One of my favorite things about camping here is the rustic town on Rutledge.  The Rutledge town square is reminiscent of the old south.  Most of the homes are relatively small.  The trailers are off the main road.  Some of the homes have been remodeled to retain and preserve their traditional look.

   High Falls State Park is located about 90 miles south of Atlanta.  Just take I-75 south and follow the signs.  It is near the city of Foryth.  Keep in mind the Georgia Law Enforcement Training Center is located in Forsyth.  It is not unusual to see a large number of police cars from all over the state here.    Especially if you are eating lunch at the Holiday Inn Restaurant.  They have a great lunch buffet.

   The ranger station is located on the opposite side of the road from the campground.  We loved the electronic gate at the entrance and exit to the campsites.  The gate automatically locks at 10:00pm each night.  This is wonderful for any park.  Actually it is the first park which I have seen do something like this.  I don't know why more parks have not employed these sorts of security measures.  The bath houses very tolerably clean.  The actual tent areas were pee gravel.  I hate pee gravel.  It is very abrasive on the bottom of the tents.  It is hard to put backpacking stakes into the ground.  Try hand pushing your tent stakes into a gravel driveway, and you have a pee gravel campsite.  I'm sure the reason for using pee gravel is to keep the site in good shape; it's supportive for campers.  However I just don't like it.  This pee gravel is very common throughout the campgrounds of Georgia.  I wish the state would come up with a good alternative.

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