News And Notes From Noccalula Falls

Today is December 6th and we are already well into the 2022 version of Christmas at the falls. Hard to believe that time passes so fast. You see, CATF is our biggest event of the year and this year is even more special and important to us here at the Falls. This is what we have worked for for nearly a year. This past year has been a very stressful year for us. We undertook a major construction project getting the new trains ready for CATF and doing so was not as easy as we had hoped. We had to take up every track, re-elevate the path, alter the course or the train, tear down two platforms, redesign our main platform, update electricity throughout the park and lay down new asphalt once everything was ready. In addition, we had to…

This post is sort of an extra post, or an addition to the one I did the other day about our new trains. I really just wanted to document the delivery of our second train to the tacks here at Noccalula Falls Park. It’s been a  long journey for this here train. She’s a show…

All of us at Noccalula Falls Park and Campground are abuzz with excitement as we are now only 6 days away from opening night at Christmas at the Falls 2022. We have worked so hard and have so many new things to share with you this year. For those of you that aren’t familiar with…

I have been waiting to write this post for so long!! Our Trains arrived earlier this week, just as the new track was being completed. We have tested one complete train so far and the training has begun for all the train drivers. WE WILL BE READY TO GO FOR CHRISTMAS AT THE FALLS!!! I’m…

You all know the old saying, “Into each life a little rain must fall.” Well 2022 was the year for Noccalula Falls. We’ve faced challenge after challenge this year and we have managed to face them all head on and as October 13th, we are nearing the end of each and every one of them….

Being the Manager of the Train Drivers, everyone associates me with the person in the “know” about the trains. And while I do know a good bit, information flows to me from a million different sources. As such, I’ve had to piece together all of the information I have received over the past ten months…

Good Evening, and welcome to the spooky season!! Ghosts and Ghouls, Mummies and Monsters, Werewolves and Vampires roam the land. And they say the ghost of Noccalula perches nightly on the edge of the gorge looking down into the falls pool below, until she slowly fades into the mist… But who cares about all that?…

Hello my friends, Jim B. here with great news about the trains. We are in the final stages of getting our trains back up and running. In fact, we have so much work going on at this moment we have decided to close Noccalula Falls Park beginning Monday, September 22nd, 2022 so that work can…

It has finally happened!! After all this time the new train tracks are being added!! I was out and about inspecting the work the other day when I saw these guys laying out the new rails. My heart actually jumped 10 feet out of my chest!  I know we have a good way to go…

Goodness Gracious!! We have so much going on around the park. I can’t wait to tell you all about it. (There is going to be a really cool something in this post so make sure you read all of it.) First off, we are slightly less than a month away from Art On The Rocks,…

Hello again fans of Noccalula Falls. Here is a brief summary of a list of happenings in and around the Falls. We just finished the World’s Longest Yard Sale (which officially begins every year right here at Noccalula Falls) and it was a great success. People from all over the country stopped by and shopped…

Surveyors plotting the center line of the new train tracks Welcome back for our mid July update, where we’ll catch you up on the goings on around the park. Stakes mark the offset of the new train track center line First things first; Train construction update. Folks, it is about to get real here in…