I made it home from Israel and have been getting back into the regular flow of things at home. And nothing helps fight jet lag better than some fresh air and sunshine, so we made our way to our favorite state park to explore another wonderful trail. We decided to take the Lost Creek Trail that starts right outside of the visitor center and were rewarded with a lovely walk that winded its way along the water and up and around the rolling ridges of the park. The trail we found had a number of bridges to cross, a few of them long swaying suspension bridges and a few small wooden planked bridges. Tessa and Scout kept vying to be the leader and both of them would gently push the other to the side so they could take the lead. The trail was about a mile and a half and led us to the incredible overlook of the lake. The overlook gives a small glimpse of the massive size of this park and we happily sat on the bench just enjoying the view. We took the paved path that leads from the overlook back to the visitor center because as much as we loved the trail, none of us were really up for going back that way. Ah, it feels good to be home with my family once again.
17 responses to “Lost Creek Trail- Tims Ford State Park {Tennessee}”
Loving Tessa’s outfit, very forest nymph 🧚
haha, so true! She gotten to the age where she definitely has her own sense of style 🙂
It is lovely to see friends and family when you return home from a trip, I bet it won’t be long before you are ready to set off somewhere again though 😊
So true. It’s nice to be home but my restless soul won’t stay put for too long 🙂
It must be so nice to be back with your family again. Hope you are all now planning a trip together. It looks lovely and lush there.
It is really green here right now as we soak up these last few weeks of summer. Now that I’m home we’re excitedly planning a trip as a family to Germany this winter to go and enjoy the Christmas markets. I hope you have a wonderful weekend Marion 🙂
Wow, I love visiting Germany but although I’ve enjoyed other European Christmas markets, I’m yet to visit a German one! Enjoy your weekend Meg. Marion
Do you have a favorite Christmas market that you’ve visited?
I’m not sure, I’ve visited so many from Prague to Budapest to those nearer home in London,Manchester and Edinburgh. My husband enthuses about the Hamburg market as he was staying there on a business trip when it was taking place. I’d like to go there and also Nuremberg (plus many others)! Where are you thinking of Meg? M xx
oh those would be incredible places to visit a Christmas market! I think we’re going to go to Munich and rent a car and visit Nuremberg and maybe Salzburg. I’ll have to tell my husband about Hamburg and see if we can make it there too. 🙂
It all sounds wonderful and something lovely to look forward to!
Ah, sweet Tennessee and another forest trail conquered! Are you keeping some sort of list on the forests you’ve done and those still to explore?
We were just keeping a mental note of the places we had visited. But then we got our state park passport book so we’ve started writing down the specific hiking trails and storybook trails that we take at the parks. It’s been a really fun to get our stamps and to write about the trails in our state park book.
That’s great. Do you have a rough idea of how many state parks you still have to visit? Over 20? Under 50? Tennessee is such a green state.
Of the 54 state parks, we’ve now visited 22 of them 😀 I’m still amazed sometimes at all the green, all the trees, and all the wildflowers here. It wasn’t until I left Utah that I realized how limited of an idea I had about what green was.
Welcome back! Looks like you had an awesome trip!
Thank you! It was an amazing trip 🙂