Little River Canyon National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located on top of Lookout Mountain near Fort Payne, Alabama, and DeSoto State Park. Created by an Act of Congress in 1992, the 15,288-acre (6,187 ha) preserve protects what is sometimes said to be the nation’s longest mountaintop river, the Little River. The canyon was historically called “May’s Gulf”, “gulf” being a common term throughout the Cumberland Plateau for this sort of feature. Prior to being assigned to the National Park Service, the canyon area formed the southmost unit of Alabama’s DeSoto State Park.
Coordinates = Little River Falls (OSM node 2270112076). Canyon Mouth Park hours vary by season. AW’s Little River (AL) sections were not matched in the USA-ALB stub pass — check AW manually.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Maps & guidebooks
Upcoming events here
Guided hike on the Powell Trail
Opt outside Birding Walk – Hiking Beaver Pond Trail
Close to here
Little River Falls
LIRI – Little River Falls Overlook
LIRI – Little River Falls Parking Lot
Little River Canyon Center
LIRI – Blue Hole
Little Falls
Source: American Whitewater, TWRA & TVA · Also listed at nps.gov · OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
