Photo Trip Report: Noccalula Falls

[Brandy524]

Noccalula Falls is located about five miles from house (not technically a "trip"), and is the only tourist attraction in Gadsden, Alabama. It’s no destination spot, but if you happen to be passing through it’s worth a stop. Here’s the wikipedia entry for Noccalula Falls Park just to give you a little background information, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noccalula_Falls_Park.

 

The falls is usually nothing more than a trickle, but when we get lots of rain it gets bigger, obviously. The creek that it’s a part of runs parallel to the road that I live on. The creek was raging yesterday and as we were driving home Ally pointed to it and said, “Wow, Mommy, look at all that water!” So of course after we ate supper we had to drive down to see the actual falls. Sorry the pictures a little fuzzy, but it was misting rain so they didn't turn out that great.

 

Here is what it usually looks like on any normal day:

 

Not too terribly exciting.

 

Now, here is what it looks like right now, compliments of Faye:

 

A little more impressive, huh? My husband took that picture using the motion setting on the camera. I took this one without the motion setting:

 

 

Here’s a couple of shots of the creek leading up to the falls. Usually it’s pretty calm, there are lots of ducks swimming around, no kind of fencing or anything to keep you away from the water. Check it out now:

 

 

 

There aren’t any ducks swimming in that! Y’all. Y’all. This is a creek!

 

Here’s another with the motion setting:

 

 

Without motion setting:

 

 

There’s a trail that leads into the gorge and behind the falls. I bet no one’s going to be going behind the falls anytime soon! You can’t even see behind it right now.

 

The mist at the bottom:

 

And I leave you with a picture of me and my girls leaving:

 

One of these days I’ll get over to the other side of the park where the “attractions” are (train, petting zoo, pioneer village, etc.), and do a trip report. But you actually have to pay to get in there, and I’m pretty cheap so it may not happen anytime soon.

 

Hope y’all enjoyed it!

[Moose]

That's a very pretty waterfall, even under normal conditions. It's a very unique rock formation, or at least I've never seen one like it.

[Brandy524]

For some reason the wikipedia page is not there anymore. I swear to you it was there when I posted the link this morning, and now, poof, it's gone. Oh well, here's their actual website: http://noccfalls.homestead.com/