DISMALS CANYON
Route 3, Box 281
Phil Campbell, AL 35581
(205) 993-4559
LOCATION: Dismals Canyon is located in northwest Alabama, north of Hackleburg.
ACTIVITIES: Activities include camping, sightseeing, and family enjoyment.
FACILITIES: Camping, guided tours, country store/museum
FEES: Call the park for fee information.
SITE: Come and explore the dark, misty canyon with beautiful trees, waterfalls, cliffs and boulders where plants usually not native to Alabama flourish. Visitors to Dismals Canyon can stand where ancient Indians once held secret rituals or outlaws hid from the law. Artifacts found on the canyon floor indicate man lived here some 10,000 years ago. The Scotch-Irish settlers gave the dark, misty gorge its depressing name. Come see Dismals Canyon!