The Cheaha Wilderness lies next to

Cheaha State Park Cheaha State Park is a public recreation area located in Clay and Cleburne counties in Alabama, US. The park's include Cheaha Mountain, the highest point in the state. The park adjoins Talladega National Forest and is managed by the Alabama D ...

, near the Talladega Mountains in

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

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. It lies within the

Talladega National Forest The Talladega National Forest is located in the U.S. state of Alabama and covers 392,567 acres (613.39 sq mi, or 1,588.66 km2) at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains. Before it was bought by the federal government in the 1930s, ...

and is administrated by the

US Forest Service The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land. The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's ...

. Congress designated the area on January 3, 1983Cheaha Wilderness Act, . and expanded it in 1988. From the stone tower on the summit of

Cheaha Mountain Cheaha Mountain , often called Mount Cheaha, is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is located a few miles northwest of the town of Delta, Alabama, Delta in Cheaha State Park, which offers a lodge, a restaurant, and other ...

, Alabama's highest point at , a dense second-growth

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the '' plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunli ...

stretches south across Cheaha State Park and into Cheaha Wilderness. Best known for its elevated terrain and overlooks with panoramic views, the Cheaha Wilderness attracts

hiker A hike is a long, vigorous walking, walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside. Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century. Long hikes as part of a religious pilgrimage have existed for a much longer tim ...

s to its section of the Pinhoti Trail This stretch of the trail runs from northeast to southwest across the entire Wilderness, a distance of about . Primarily following a ridge system through

, the Pinhoti crosses the top of Cheaha Mountain. In total, the long Pinhoti Trail passes through both the Cheaha and Dugger Mountain Wilderness areas, and connects with the

Appalachian Trail The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states.Gailey, Chris (2006)"Appalachian Tra ...

in Georgia.

References

External links

Wilderness.net

TopoQuest Map
{{Authority control Protected areas of Clay County, Alabama IUCN Category Ib Wilderness areas of Alabama Alabama placenames of Native American origin