Today we visit Aiken State Park! From canoeing to camping to hiking this park has plenty to keep you busy! There's also good history here, as this park was built by the CCC. We weren't able to go on the canoe trail but have heard it's really good, maybe a follow up visit will happen soon!!
Today we hiked the jungle trail, it's 3 miles (Not including any extra exploring!) but relatively flat. There are shortcuts you can take if you don't want to hike the whole trail. One of the shortcuts is where the trail crosses the road, if you started the trail at the lake and took a right at the splits you'll come to this spot and all you have to do is hang a left walk along the road and you'll come across the trailhead further up the road.
The trail is well marked and varies a lot in vegetation. The start of it is mainly piney woods, then you traverse into other and thicker vegetation. There are sections of the trail where you are on a raised boardwalk due to the swampy area.
There are a few (But not a whole lot) learning stations along the trail to provide a break and good information. Most of the stations were in good condition.
Some parts of the trail are very thick and overgrown, it lives up to the jungle name! There were a few sections of boardwalk that were damaged but it looked fresh and hopefully will be fixed soon.
There's plenty of beauty at this park, sometimes you have to look to see it!
The park has a really nice campground, it's very level and as you can see in the middle of tall pines. We will probably be back to camp here in the future! They also have several of the original buildings from the CCC, there's history stations around them to tell you the stories.
This is a great park and we look forward to visiting again and do some camping and canoeing. Scroll down past this to see a few more pictures from the park and as always, be sure to read the rest of this blog to see our other state park adventures and then visit our website to see the pictures in higher resolution and the ones that didn't make it into the blog! Fine art prints are available for purchase at my site also. Be sure to connect with us on social media! All this can be found at our site: http://www.centerlightstudios.com.
Some parts of the trail are very thick and overgrown, it lives up to the jungle name! There were a few sections of boardwalk that were damaged but it looked fresh and hopefully will be fixed soon.
There's plenty of beauty at this park, sometimes you have to look to see it!
The park has a really nice campground, it's very level and as you can see in the middle of tall pines. We will probably be back to camp here in the future! They also have several of the original buildings from the CCC, there's history stations around them to tell you the stories.
This is a great park and we look forward to visiting again and do some camping and canoeing. Scroll down past this to see a few more pictures from the park and as always, be sure to read the rest of this blog to see our other state park adventures and then visit our website to see the pictures in higher resolution and the ones that didn't make it into the blog! Fine art prints are available for purchase at my site also. Be sure to connect with us on social media! All this can be found at our site: http://www.centerlightstudios.com.
Hi, Nathan. We enjoyed meeting you at Sesquicentennial. Great blog, and your photos are very well done. The odds of our schedule of park visitation coinciding with yours seem really small, so we were glad for the meeting. Keep promoting the outdoors!
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Hi Steve and Debra! For some reason I never got a notification about your comment, thank you for looking at my blog. It was good getting to meet you also, hope you have a great Christmas and New Year!! -Nathan
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