Mary Beth Brownlee, new Executive Director of One Valdosta-Lowndes (OVL), got to see the site of the future Troupville River Camp and Nature Park.

Around Troupville River Camp and Nature Park –jsq

She and Georgia Power Southwest Regional Director Joe Brownlee and their daughter Elizabeth are only about the third party who have followed me around the entire river circumference of the site, down the Little River to its Confluence, and then up the Withlacoochee River back to GA 133.

WWALS Executive Director Gretchen Quarterman took many of these pictures. WWALS provided the visitors information about Troupville Nature Park and Troupville River Camp including letters of support from Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia, the Valdosta-Lowndes Chamber, Madison and Hamilton Counties, Florida, the Suwannee River Water Management District, and others.

Troupville River Camp is top of the project list for OVL, which is an economic development and well being organization.

One Valdosta-Lowndes, River Camp Project, Dr. Carvajal, Origins, at Lowndes County Commission, 2021-11-08.

Lowndes County last December bought the 71 acres below Troupville Boat Ramp down to the Little River Confluence from Helen Tapp, whose family had owned it for a century. Added to the 49.36 acres already owned by Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA) and the 0.04 acres owned by the State of Georgia for the boat ramp, that is 120.87 acres.

Troupville River Camp and Nature Park in WWALS WLRWT map.
The VLPRA land is outlined in yellow.
The recent purchase is outlined in green.

VLPRA’s Master Plan, revised last year, wants not just one but a chain of river camps down to the GA-FL line.

OVL is charged with fundraising for this project, so we’ll see what happens now.

There are more pictures below.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
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Troupville Boat Ramp, Little River –GQ

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On the trail –GQ

Confluence

At the Little River Confluence with the Withlacoochee River –jsq

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Withlacoochee River –GQ

Plants

What lives in there? –GQ

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Where are we going? –jsq

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Relic Valdosta sewage installation –jsq

Chocolate vine

Five-leaf Akebia –jsq

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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