This is that dreamy, wind-in-your-hair kind of place that people actually leave Florida for. Most of us from the deep south have known about Lake Martin all of our lives (not to be confused with Lake Logan Martin). It’s the “blue skies” that Lynyrd Skynard sang about and was the choice for a $10 million vacation home by the notorious Richard Scrucci, former HealthSouth CEO. In 1952, Hank Williams stayed in a lakeside cabin here and wrote his last recorded song, “Kaw-Liga.” And although it’s only 30 minutes from Auburn, it was here that we once chatted with former Alabama star quarterback AJ McCarron (a super nice fellow) in the pizza line at famous Chuck’s. Continue reading “Resting on the South’s Finest Lake is America’s Largest State Campground” →