Summer 2017 Camping Trip - Day 4

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 was the last day of our trip.  In the morning we broke camp but left our car at the campsite to do a hike out of the campground.  We took a short connector trail out to the West Rim Loop Trail.  The hike was about four miles so we carried Gray in the backpack again.

As it's name implies, the trail is along the west rim of the canyon for most of the hike.

Gray fell asleep near the end of the hike.

We had a picnic lunch in the campground and then headed back to the Main Overlook parking lot where we'd been the evening before.  From here we hiked down into the canyon to a pair of waterfalls on the Waterfalls Trail.  The hike is about 1.5 miles round-trip.

To get into the canyon, there are a TON of steps - approximately 600 (one-way).

Cherokee Falls ...

The steps and boardwalks are pretty cool and unique.

A small fall we didn't know the name of ...

Hemlock Falls ...

The tough part - going back up all the steps!

Cloudland Canyon was a wonderful park!  We had never heard of it before researching the area for our trip and highly recommend it.

The Waterfalls Trail was our last hike of the trip.  We headed home after that with a car of worn out kids!