Arrived at Piney Grove Friday around 2pm after leaving Deerlick around 9. Drove the back roads, most on US 43 in all it's combinations, except for a 25 mile stretch on I-22 trying to beat the rain. That really was for naught, because there were still campers in our reserved site when we arrived so it was 3:30 before we set up...but still ahead of the rain by about an hour or so....wle had time to enjoy an adult beverage by the lake. Then it was get Hazel's thundershirt on, eat dinner inside and spend the evening reading.
The campground/recreation area, situated between Tishomingo and New Site, MS, pretty much takes up most of one of the peninsulas in Bay Springs Lake...with the campground at the southern end and our campsite (117) actually on the SE tip. We're facing the Natchez Trace Recreation Area across the lake. This man-made lake is one of the COE projects on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Rivers. Most of these campgrounds were originally built to provide COE housing for the people building the dams.
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway extends 234 miles from the Tennessee River to the junction of the Tombigbee River in Alabama. The man-made waterway connects commercial water transportation with the Gulf of Mexico.
The system includes ten lock and dams, Bay Springs Lake, Gainesville Lake, Aliceville Lake, Columbus Lake and Aberdeen Lake. Overall, the Tenn-Tom waters cover 180,000 acres of public land.
Spent Saturday with on and off rain. Good day to eat all the leftovers in frig, drink wine and finish that dang blasted jig saw puzzle...and we did!
Now we're on the other side of Paducah...at Ft. Massac State Park. More on that next time.
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