Indian Mountain Tract camping area (Forever Wild, Pinhoti Trail)

public land records

Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.

Alabama Forever Wild Land Trust, Indian Mountain Tract, Cherokee County. SOURCE: alabamaforeverwild.com/indian-mountain read 2026-08-16: "Purchased in partnership with The Conservation Fund, the three tract acquisitions that make up Indian Mountain cover 1,114 acres of mountainous upland hardwood forest land in Cherokee County. Within the Indian Mountain Tract, the Pinhoti Trail of the Talladega National Forest connects with the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. Recreational opportunities abound in this picturesque locale, including hiking, camping, hunting and wildlife observation." FEE CAVEAT: that page lists camping as a permitted activity but says NOTHING about a fee, and there is no ADCNR camping fee published for Forever Wild tracts. fee=0 is an inference from the absence of a published fee plus the explicit 'no fee' wording ADCNR uses on its comparable Coosa and Walls of Jericho tracts -- it is NOT a 'this is free' sentence about Indian Mountain. CONFIRM BEFORE PUBLISHING. ADCNR publishes no facility list, so whether there is a table, ring or toilet is UNKNOWN. NO WATER IS CLAIMED. Access note: the tract's public parking lot is off Cherokee County Rd 793 per ADCNR's directions; we do NOT know whether you can drive to this point, so camp_type is left blank rather than guessed. COORDINATE PROVENANCE: this point is ADCNR's own GIS -- the public ArcGIS service https://conservationgis.alabama.gov/adcnrweb/rest/services/Activities/MapServer/0, layer name 'Camping', queried 2026-08-16 (13 points statewide). It is the agency's mapped camping symbol -- the same symbol that appears in the 'Camping Area' legend on ADCNR's WMA permit maps -- NOT a field visit and NOT a geocode. ADCNR publishes no per-site facility list for these points, so table / fire ring / toilet presence is UNKNOWN and no water source is claimed. Eight of the thirteen points carry no Name attribute at all; the name on this row is OURS, built from the Forever Wild tract and WMA polygons the point falls inside (ForeverWildTracts/MapServer/0 and WildlifeManagementAreas/MapServer/0, same service, same day). It is not a sign on the ground. STATEWIDE WMA CAMPING RULE, quoted verbatim from an ADCNR/Forever Wild permit map PDF (Forever Wild Land Trust, Sipsey River Complex South Zone permit map, downloaded from alabamaforeverwild.com and read 2026-08-16): "To camp except in designated areas. Campers using generators must camp in an area designated for generator use. Individuals or groups may camp for a period not to exceed nine (9) days in any thirty (30) day period. Campfires must be extinguished before departing. No warming fires shall be permitted away from camping area." Those clauses sit in the list of PROHIBITED acts, so read them as: camping is legal ONLY in designated areas, and the ceiling is 9 days in any 30. The same document also bans open alcoholic beverages outside a designated camping area, and bans hunting or discharging a firearm/bow within 150 yards of any designated camping area. Nearest town: Spring Garden ~8.5 mi -- STRAIGHT-LINE distance to the nearest OpenStreetMap place=city/town/village, NOT a driving distance; in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and on the Cumberland Plateau the way in is far longer. Ingest 2026-08-16. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.

US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.

On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.