Back in the late 80’s and 90s we would float the rivers there and such but had always been warned not to do anything that might offend the local constabulary as they didn’t really operate as we would expect
20 years later a few friends who owned property there all but abandoned it as the meth heads would steal everything not nailed down the minute they left home for any reason
Lot of people don’t seem to understand that many of these backwards poor rural communities are just as bad as any inner city ghetto
I lived there in the 70’s and we sold the farm in about 1980. Some parts were OK but even then there was places and people to avoid… once it was the land of moonshine now it’s meth and worse…
You could film both Deliverance and Walking Tall movies down there…