Joe Wheeler State Park
Site #3 Northwest Loop Description: This resort park is complete with extensive facilities, including a resort lodge, restaurant, and marina. The park provides access to the north side of Wheeler Lake and the associated backwaters, which are often good for waterbirds. The park also contains several patches of deciduous hardwoods crisscrossed by marked forest trails [...]
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Waterloo
Site #11 Northwest Loop Description: The town of Waterloo sits a few miles west of the Natchez Trace Parkway in northwestern Alabama. The area is renowned for the concentration of Bald Eagles that congregate here in the winter months. Sightings of half a dozen eagles are quite common, and at times more than 20 have [...]
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Natchez Trace Parkway – Rock Springs Nature Trail
Site #10 Northwest Loop Description: Situated along the Natchez Trace Parkway just north of the Tennessee River, this idyllic wooded area offers a nature trail that follows Colbert Creek to Rock Springs (approximate 20-minute walk). The creek is intermittently dammed by beavers, creating an impressive wetland abounding with a variety of resident and wintering birds. [...]
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Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge
Site #9 Northwest Loop Description: Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) has large open fields managed for warm-season native grasses interspersed with small patches of deciduous woodland and the seasonal sinkhole wetland. The refuge is gradually being converted from crops to native warm-season grasslands. The benefit of this restoration is immediately apparent from the dozens [...]
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