Sweetwater Creek Park

Both Will and I have been working so much that we haven’t had a chance to get anyway anywhere, even for a weekend. Both of us go stir-crazy being cooped up in the city for long, so we take any chance we can to put on our hiking shoes and at least explore places near to us on synchronized days off. Recently we found a place about 20mins away called “Sweetwater Creek Park.”

More than just an awesome State Park with an abundance of wildlife, native plants, awesome walking trails and a river flowing through it, Sweetwater is also home to an incredible historic site: the ruins of a textile mill demolished in the Civil War! Its strong foundation and several skeletal walls still stand on the creek bed, casting a hauntingly beautiful centrepiece amongst the otherwise untouched, wild landscape.