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Here is an early heads-up with information about our club meeting in June. Vernon and I visited with Sandy Tesney, Director of Sales for Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge to make arrangements for our June gathering there. Surprisingly, we were the last group she could book for the season and informed us that the park lodge rooms were close selling out. She blocked out some rooms and camp sites for us with a deadline of April 22, 2016 to make our reservations. After that, the rooms and campsites that are not reserved will go back into inventory and will be on a space available basis. The standard lodge rooms, chalets and lake cabins were already sold out. We have a total of 8 other lodge rooms and 15 campsites blocked for us. Sandy said that when they release room blocks on April 24th, “some of the other room types may come up for grabs”. There is a primitive camping area, but it is also used for camper storage and isn’t nearly as nice or convenient to the facilities as the campsites that are blocked for us. http://www.alapark.com/lake-guntersville-state-park
We will enjoy having our meals at the park’s beautiful restaurant and bar, or 10 miles away in Guntersville. Food at the Lodge restaurant is very good. In Guntersville, I can highly recommend Wintzell’s Oyster House (http://www.wintzellsoysterhouse.com/.../guntersville/). There is an excellent place in the lodge bar area that overlooks the lake to have our non-meeting meeting. The adult beverages we bring with us are OK in your rooms and campsites, but not in the lodge areas. The bar will have most anything your heart desires; speaking of beverages of course.
Attached, please find two PDF files with the reservation details: phone number, room and campsite types and prices, and the name and Group Booking Code as well as a color copy of the Park’s brochure showing the camping area B where our campsites are located. There are plenty trees and it is close to the bath house and registration office/grocery store. Sandy also said that our area is the best place to enjoy seeing the deer that sometime roam through the campground.
Our gathering at Lake Guntersville State Park will be a riding meeting too. The best of the best roads in Alabama are close by. The Saturday ride will take us from Lake Guntersville Lodge to Grant Mountain, then over Keel Mountain toward Paint Rock Valley (SR 65). Then we ride down Crow Mountain to the Pikeville Store for the best Cheeseburger in Alabama and then, after lunch, past the Rock Zoo and Stevenson to one of the most beautiful overlooks in the state on the way back to Lake Guntersville S. P. via Langston along Lake Guntersville. Departure time will be 9 am in from of the lodge.
Sunday, on the long way back to Birmingham, I invite you to ride along with me through Bucks Pocket and the back roads to Little River Canyon. Then north through Desoto State Park to Mentone where we will have lunch at either the Wild Flower Café or the new Mountain cove Farms restaurant. After lunch through the wonderful Mountain Cove Farms valley and back to Lookout Mountain Parkway on the way to the Collinsville Jacks at I-59. From there, south to north Shelby County via interstate highways. Departure time will be 9 am in front of the lodge.
I will post more of the specific details for our meeting and rides when we get closer to the meeting weekend in June.
We will enjoy having our meals at the park’s beautiful restaurant and bar, or 10 miles away in Guntersville. Food at the Lodge restaurant is very good. In Guntersville, I can highly recommend Wintzell’s Oyster House (http://www.wintzellsoysterhouse.com/.../guntersville/). There is an excellent place in the lodge bar area that overlooks the lake to have our non-meeting meeting. The adult beverages we bring with us are OK in your rooms and campsites, but not in the lodge areas. The bar will have most anything your heart desires; speaking of beverages of course.
Attached, please find two PDF files with the reservation details: phone number, room and campsite types and prices, and the name and Group Booking Code as well as a color copy of the Park’s brochure showing the camping area B where our campsites are located. There are plenty trees and it is close to the bath house and registration office/grocery store. Sandy also said that our area is the best place to enjoy seeing the deer that sometime roam through the campground.
Our gathering at Lake Guntersville State Park will be a riding meeting too. The best of the best roads in Alabama are close by. The Saturday ride will take us from Lake Guntersville Lodge to Grant Mountain, then over Keel Mountain toward Paint Rock Valley (SR 65). Then we ride down Crow Mountain to the Pikeville Store for the best Cheeseburger in Alabama and then, after lunch, past the Rock Zoo and Stevenson to one of the most beautiful overlooks in the state on the way back to Lake Guntersville S. P. via Langston along Lake Guntersville. Departure time will be 9 am in from of the lodge.
Sunday, on the long way back to Birmingham, I invite you to ride along with me through Bucks Pocket and the back roads to Little River Canyon. Then north through Desoto State Park to Mentone where we will have lunch at either the Wild Flower Café or the new Mountain cove Farms restaurant. After lunch through the wonderful Mountain Cove Farms valley and back to Lookout Mountain Parkway on the way to the Collinsville Jacks at I-59. From there, south to north Shelby County via interstate highways. Departure time will be 9 am in front of the lodge.
I will post more of the specific details for our meeting and rides when we get closer to the meeting weekend in June.
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