Camping at A. H. Stephens State Park, Crawfordville, Georgia
Our next stop was for 1 night to check out A. H. Stephens State Park. This park is a ‘sister park’ to Hamburg State Park (our next stop). We travelled 175 miles from General Coffee State Park to A. H. Stephens State Park. Crawfordville is a very small and remote town (don’t expect to do any shopping or eating out here). We did find an older gas station very close to the park.
Park Details
A.H. Stephens Coffee State Park
Address: 456 Alexander St, Crawfordville, GA 30631
Park 706-456-2602
Park 7 a.m.–10 p.m.
Park Office 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Cell phone service (Verizon) was good at this park
This is a very large park, 1,177 acres. In our 1-night stay, we didn’t get to see a lot this park has to offer but did find it to be a very nice campground and park. The park is a historic site and has a Civil War Museum (perhaps next time we can explore this). Alexander. H. Stephens was the 50th governor of Georgia and the only vice president of the Confederacy. His house, the Liberty Hall, resides on the property of this park.
Campsite Details
30 amp and 50amp electric
Picnic table, Fire ring
Gravel campsite
Our campsite was mostly shade, campsite #1. Lot of trees in this campground providing shade
Water/Electric/Sewer
Back in sites (a few pull through sites)
Checkin is 1pm
Checkout is 12pm
Quiet hours 10pm - 7am
NOTE: Thus far, it seems that Georgia state parks have a checkin of 1pm, checkout of 12pm.
Overall, this campground looks like it was totally renovated in the last year. All sites looked new and very well cared for. The overall campground is not large, but it’s nice and quiet. In the center of all the campsites is a grassy area where the ‘tower’ resides.
The bath house was nice and clean – it was located a few campsites down from ours. They have garbage cans in front of the bathhouse and then again further down on the campground loop.
NOTE: They do have a separate camping area for equestrian camping.
That little orange thing makes things easier since you can take care of everything before leaving the campsite and not having to stop at the dump station on the way out.
Ready for Halloween
This park had several different Halloween decorations through out the main portion that we travelled to get to the campground. They dressed up the skeletons and gave them names (I assume of the staff working in the park).
This setup was at the entrance to the campground.
Lake Buncombe hike
There is a portion of the ‘nature trail’ that is just behind campsite #1 (our campsite). The hike is about half a mile each way (not a loop). A beautiful trail that has some elevation changes and reminded me of some of the trails we have hiked in North Carolina mountains. We did spot deer on the trail, but other than that, we appeared to have the trail to ourselves.
After Dark
The tower in the center of the campground is lit up at night – it’s a beautiful site. There are a lot of stars out and we asked the camp host and they said the best place to view stars would most likely be the boat ramp. We did not make that trek since we were there just the one night but good to know for any potential future trips.
Fire Tower
In reading the information that is posted outside of the fire tower I found out that it was built by the CCC which was part of the Franklin Roosevelt New Deal back in the early 1930s. Today, the fire tower is no longer used, but it is a nice centerpiece for the campground. The light comes on in the evening hours but I noticed that it was not on early the next morning so it must not be on all night. I had thought it would be a great place to star gaze until I saw the light.
MAP
Our path from General Coffee State Park to A. H. Stephens State Park. We travelled back roads through a lot of rural Georgia for this leg of our trip.
The trail map provided to us upon check in at the park office.
The campground areas are on the back of the above brochure. We were in campsite #1 which due to the angle with the road, it was an easy spot to get into. During the short stay we didn't really have much traffic going by our site.
The equestrian campground map.
