MOULTRIE — Ghosts, goblins, witches and … alligators?

Reed Bingham State Park will begin its annual Fall Festival this weekend.

Festivities will start at 7 p.m. and continue until 11 p.m. on Friday

and Saturday. The fun will continue on Oct. 24-25 and again on Oct.

31-Nov.1.

“It should be a lot of fun for everyone,” said Chet Powell, a naturalist

with the park. “It’s a family event.”

Activities will include a haunted house at the beach house on the

Colquitt County side of the lake, nighttime pontoon boat rides and hay

rides. Both the boat and hay rides will leave from the beach house area.

A second wagon has been added this year to keep the hay rides going.

Those wagons will take riders from the haunted house through the woods

and back.

Powell said the nighttime boat rides — and a chance to see the park’s

alligators — have been popular in the past, and expects they will be

again.

The cost for the festival is $1 person for each event. All vehicles must

display a valid park pass, which is $2.

Along with the Fall Festival, daytime canoe trips will be held from 9

a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturdays.

Tom McClain will lead groups of six to eight canoes down Little River

from Red Roberts Landing (Rountree Bridge) to the lake.. The cost for

this activity is $5. Participants should call the park at 896-3551 to

sign up for those trips.

Powell said the Friends of Reed Bingham group is stilling looking for

volunteers to help with the festival.

Also taking place this Saturday is Reed Bingham’s participation in

“Rivers Alive,” which is Georgia’s annual volunteer event to clean up

the state’s streams, rivers, lakes, beaches, and wetlands.

Park officials, members of Friends of Reed Bingham and volunteers will

clean up the river from Red Roberts Landing to the railroad trestles.

“This is a massive, all day thing,” said Powell.

Anyone who wishes to volunteer should contact Powell for information.



To contact reporter Jennifer Terry, please call 985-4545, ext. 222.