Weather it be golfing, fishing, and even camping you can do it all at Sherling Lake park and campground. Located 5 miles from interstate 65 between Montgomery, AL and Mobile,AL. One of the most beautiful scenes of the great outdoors here in Greenville,AL. Greenville is your largest stop between Montgomery and Mobile. Sherling lake has a little for all ages.
The camping is wonderful with bathhouse and playground for the kids. There is RV camp sites with electric and water hookups. You also have tent sites if camping the old style is your way of doing it. There are two lakes where great fishing can be made fun for the old and the young. The cart path leading from the tee off box of hole number 5 on the Sherling course separates the two lakes. With most of the fishing in the bottom lake is done by boat. The larger bass are caught from the bottom lake. Even though the upper lake has produced great bass and catfish fishing also. The upper lake can be fished from boat or the bank.
There is a walking trail that leads around through the woods of the park. The lake house and the pavilions are great for family gatherings. These can be rented from the main office in the park. In park staff is very friendly and helpful at all times. The city of Greenville is grateful for such a place.
If walking and hiking or even fishing is not you thing then try one of Alabama’s most beautiful golf courses on the Robert Trent Jones Golf trail. The course of Cambrian Ridge which joins the park has excellent golfing. There are 36 championship holes at Cambrian Ridge. The Sherling course and the Canyon course could be two of the hardest on the trail. There is also a beautiful Loblolly course of 9 holes that help make up this 36 hole course. If 18 or even 36 holes is too much golfing in one day the you may want to try the short course. The short course is a par 3, 9 hole course that also boarders the lower lake. The Canyon course hold its own beauty with deep hills and hollows and even the site of old fixed ladder stands from deer hunting well before the course was ever built.
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail of Alabama has some of the most beautiful scenes that a golf trail could have. Sherling lake is owned by the city of Greenville which has grown very nicely over the years. As I have said before the park is beautiful, peaceful, and quite for any age. Wildlife such as deer, turkey, geese, and even the parks own peacock can be seen here. During the spring beautiful sounds of mature long beard gobblers can be heard at day break around the other lands that join the park. With tall Alabama pines and white oak trees the scene at Sherling lake is like none other. The dark blue and green shaded waters of the lake are like a glass mirror on a cool spring windless morning just begging you to take a pole and throw in a cork and hook.
So the next time you want to go out for a little camping trip head down to Greenville,AL to Sherling Lake park where camping, hiking, golfing, fishing, and even fun is allowed all in one place. A place for the entire family can come and enjoy the great outdoors. For more info on camping at Sherling Lake call Matt, La Don, Paul, or Bill at 334-382-3638. Remember that at Sherling Lake park all outdoor dreams may come true.