Walls of Jericho -- Hurricane Creek primitive camping area (near Clark Cemetery)

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, Walls of Jericho Tract, Jackson County -- part of the James D. Martin - Skyline WMA. SOURCE: alabamaforeverwild.com/walls-jericho read 2026-08-16, Camping section, verbatim: "There are two primitive camping areas on the Walls of Jericho hiking trail. The first area is on the north end of the hiking parking lot and has room for six to eight tent sites. The second is located on Hurricane Creek next to Clark Cemetery and has room for eight tent sites. Both locations are free of charge and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Fires are allowed but must be extinguished before leaving and all trash must be removed." THIS ROW IS THE SECOND OF THE TWO, and the identification is an INFERENCE, not an ADCNR statement: the coordinate is ADCNR's GIS camping point (see provenance below) and sits about 1.3 km WNW of, and downhill from, ADCNR's published hiking-trail parking coordinate. The trail runs west from that lot down to Hurricane Creek and Clark Cemetery, so this point is almost certainly the Hurricane Creek site -- but ADCNR does not label the GIS point, and nobody has stood on it. VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING. Reached on foot: the Walls of Jericho trail is 6 miles round trip and ADCNR calls it 'a difficult hike'. Room for eight tents. NO WATER IS CLAIMED -- Hurricane Creek is NOT a stated potable source. 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. PERMIT NOTE: ADCNR requires a hunting licence, a WMA licence and a free area map/permit of HUNTERS on these areas. None of the pages read this fire imposes a licence or permit on someone who is only camping, and ADCNR publishes NO per-night camping fee for these sites. Hunting seasons do run here -- check outdooralabama.com for current season dates and wear hunter orange in season. Nearest town: Hytop ~5.1 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.