Little Ocmulgee, #1

CAMP (Y/N?): Y (1 night, solo car camp)
MY ACTIVITIES: Hike, History
NOTES: interesting man-made lake, quiet, cute cottages along the lake,  lodge with pool & golf course

​When a good idea pops in my head and grabs my heart, I tend to make it a reality.  Over a decade ago, I bought my first Georgia State Parks Annual ParkPass.  Red Top Mountain and Amicalola Falls were 'my' parks because of proximity.  I recall the park passes were colored differently each year back then and it matched my beloved yellow Xterra the first year I got one.  Destiny, right? :)  I've usually gotten the passes because of the good value, but I did skip a few years here and there.  Sometime along the way, I got the notion I'd like to visit all the state parks and hike every single trail in them.  Nice goal I thought.  But life is busy and I never got 'obsessed' enough to make it happen.  The idea remained though.

I didn't have the idea in mind this year when I bought my 2019 pass at Little Ocmulgee State Park. 

 I just happened to be camping there to go to a writing workshop the next day with author Janisse Ray about 40 minutes away at her home. (This was another "idea" that had grabbed me - a workshop with Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, WildCard Quilt, and Seed Underground.  It was a brilliant day at her homestead full of writing, homegrown & homecooked food, farm tours, and interesting new folks.)  I did buy the Supporter Pass Level ($105, 2 passes, 3 free nights camping, etc) because I was planning on more camping this year.  It is a great deal - basically the 2 Annual Passes for free is how I look at it - as 3 nights camping is equal to the cost.

I arrived late (after vacuming up 50+ gallons of water out of my basement from the rain and digging a drainage ditch so the water would flow away from my house!!!) but before dark in order to get set up with car camping in my 2015 Prius V.  After a quick check in at the Lodge, I found my site and went to explore.