{"id":9966,"date":"2021-04-20T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:02:23","slug":"tn7-hop-4-cartersville-ga-to-ringgold-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/tn7-hop-4-cartersville-ga-to-ringgold-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"TN7 Hop 4: Cartersville GA to Ringgold GA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN7 hop 4<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

78 miles almost entirely on I-75. Cumulative tow miles: 793. Truck miles: 188. Cumulative truck miles: 879. The extra truck miles were due to my shopping trip which included the Booth Museum of Western Art and a sightseeing trip into Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a short trip – just over an hour – but it was not a piece of cake for the truck as the route is hilly with some fairly long uphill pulls. But, once again, the truck performed flawlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joshua and me outside Gather<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It also wasn’t a short day of travel because, once I was unhitched and set up in Ringgold, I drove 75 miles to Blue Ridge GA to see my Florida neighbors, Joshua and Gary. They own two gift shops there – Blue Ridge Cotton Company<\/a> and Gather<\/a>. It being Sunday I was not confident that I would run into the owners, but they were both there. We had a nice chat and I bought a sweatshirt – my first clothes purchase in over a year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the trip back to the RV I chose the slightly longer route through Tennessee. This was a more scenic route, running along the very popular (for whitewater rafters) Oconee River<\/a>. It was beautiful, but the the road had sharp twists and turns and not many places to stop and take photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note to self: do NOT take the RV on this route!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of RV, the route I took to Blue Ridge included a 13′ 7″ railroad bridge. If I had been hauling I would have sweated this bridge. Bottom line: there is no RV-friendly way to get from Chattanooga to Blue Ridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Train track, 200 ft from my eardrums<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My home in Cartersville was the Allatoona Landing Marine Resort<\/a> – a combination marina and RV campground on the edge of Lake Allatoona. Also very close to the site of the Battle of Allatoona Pass which I will document separately. Also very close to a major rail freight line – a proximity which became immediately obvious when a train passed and blew its horn in my ear. And, as I soon discovered, trains passed and blew their horns pretty regularly around the clock. I didn’t get a lot of uninterrupted sleep the first night. But I got used to it quickly and slept okay the other nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campsite on the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This is an odd RV park. It isn’t large – maybe 100 sites – but very few have full sewer hookups. Maybe 15 sites. I had one of those sites. It was a back-in, which made me a little nervous, but there was plenty of room and I made it on the first try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This campground had a “weekend getaway” feel to it. It was jam-packed on Saturday with rigs wih Georgia plates and lots of kids. I didn’t see a beach, but there were lots of kayaks and fishing gear on display. And some of the campsites were right on the water. You could fish from your doorway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the park wasn’t great but the location was better than expected. If I come back to Atlanta I would consider staying here again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allatoona Landing office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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