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Parks of
Northeast Alabama

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Delta, Alabama

Cheaha State Park

2,799 ac2,407 ftFee

The roof of Alabama. Cheaha sits at 2,407 feet — the highest point in the state — on a spine of ancient Appalachian quar…

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City Park✓ Been there

Gadsden, Alabama

Noccalula Falls Park

250 acFee

A 90-foot waterfall dropping straight off a ledge into Black Creek gorge in the middle of Gadsden. Around it: 250 acres …

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National Preserve (NPS)

Fort Payne, Alabama

Little River Canyon National Preserve

15,288 acFree

One of the deepest canyon systems east of the Mississippi, cut by the Little River — a river that runs almost its entire…

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