Buck's Pocket State Park

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Buck's Pocket State Park
Type	State Park
Location	DeKalb / Jackson / Marshall counties, near Langston, Alabama, USA
Area	2,000 acres (8.1 km²)
Operated by	Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Buck's Pocket State Park is located on Sand Mountain in the northeast of the U.S. state of Alabama near Grove Oak, Alabama and Guntersville Lake. This secluded 2,000 acre (8 km²) park is in a natural pocket of the Appalachian Mountain chain, on an upstream tributary of Lake Guntersville. The park's picnic area has a canyon rim natural vista into the pocket below, and the park has an improved campground, complete with tables, grills, shelters, laundry, comfort station, playground and hiking trails. A boat launch and fishing area are also provided seven miles downstream at Morgan's Cove on Lake Guntersville.

There is a persistent legend in Alabama that unsuccessful politicians go to Buck's Pocket after losing their election. When specifically do they go, and what activities they pursue while there is not specified, but left to the imagination.

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Alabama State Parks - Buck's Pocket

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Huntsville area	Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University • Athens State University • Big Spring Park • Buck's Pocket State Park • Cathedral Caverns State Park • Cummings Research Park • Guntersville Lake • Huntsville Depot • Huntsville International Airport • Huntsville Botanical Garden • Huntsville-Madison County Public Library • Big Spring Cafe • Huntsville Museum of Art • J. F. Drake State Technical College • Joe Davis Stadium • Madison County Nature Trail • Marshall Space Flight Center • Monte Sano State Park • National Space Science and Technology Center • Oakwood College • Redstone Arsenal • Tennessee River • University of Alabama in Huntsville • United States Space & Rocket Center • Von Braun Center

Decatur area	Calhoun Community College System • Captain William J. Hudson "Steamboat Bill" Memorial Bridge • Celebration Arena • Cook's Natural Science Museum • Dancy-Polk House • Delano Park • Joe Wheeler State Park • Old State Bank • Point Mallard Park & Aquatic Center • Port of Decatur • Princess Theatre • Pryor Field Regional Airport • Rhea-McEntire House • Tennessee River • Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad • Wheeler Lake • Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge • Wilson Lake

Florence area	Alabama Music Hall of Fame • Barton Hall • Braly Stadium • Ivy Green • Northwest Alabama Regional Airport • Tennessee River • Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad • University of North Alabama • Wilson Lake

Protected Areas of Alabama

Federal

National Parks and Historic Sites	Horseshoe Bend National Military Park Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site

National Monuments	Russell Cave National Monument

National Forests	Conecuh Talladega Tuskegee William B. Bankhead

National Wildlife Refuges	Bon Secour Cahaba River Choctaw Eufaula Fern Cave Key Cave Mountain Longleaf Santa Cave Watercress Darter Wheeler

Other Protected Areas	Little River Canyon National Preserve Natchez Trace Trail Pinhoti National Recreation Trail Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Weeks Bay Reserve

Wilderness Areas	Cheaha Wilderness Dugger Mountain Wilderness Sipsey Wilderness

State

State Parks	Bladon Springs Blue Springs Buck's Pocket Cathedral Caverns Chattahoochee Cheaha Chewacla Chickasaw DeSoto Florala Frank Jackson Gulf Joe Wheeler Lake Guntersville Lake Lurleen Lakepoint Meaher Monte Sano Oak Mountain Paul M. Grist Rickwood Caverns Roland Cooper Wind Creek

State Forests	Fayette Geneva Little River Saint Stephens Weogufka