PROVIDENCE CANYON STATE PARK

Georgia’s own “Little Grand Canyon” may be the result of agricultural malfeasance, not geology—but it’s no crime to enjoy the accidentally beautiful results. Providence Canyon was formed in the early 19th century when decades of poor farming practices in southwest Georgia eroded the soil to dramatic effect. Water carved gullies into the soft earth, and by the mid-1800s, the landscape had been transformed into a series of gorges up to 150 feet deep. Yesterday’s mistakes make for breathtaking hiking today, with the sunset colors of the gorge walls juxtaposed against the vivid green of Georgia pines and laurel bushes. It’s not an endorsement of poor land management when we say that Providence Canyon—named for a church that collapsed in the erosion, later rebuil

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