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The Lake Panasoffkee park and preserve protects 9,911 acres (40.11 km 2) and offers birdwatching, biking, camping, horseback riding, fishing, hiking and hunting. It is accessed from the south side of State Route 44 two miles (3 km) west of Interstate 75. [ 22 ]
3]: Length: 39 mi (63 km) [1]: Depth: : • maximum: 27.50 ft (8.38 m) November 7, 2017 [2]: Discharge: : • location: Highway 264 bridge (USGS gauge 1991-present) [2]: • average: 873 cu ft/s (24.7 m 3 /s) (average daily discharge; 1991-2020): • minimum: 3.3 cu ft/s (0.093 m 3 /s) August/September 2007 [2]: • maximum: 38,700 cu ft/s (1,100 m 3 /s) November 7, 2017 [2]: Basin features ...
The Caney Fork rises in Cumberland County about 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Crossville before flowing southwest and crossing into White County.In southeastern White County it descends off the Cumberland Plateau through a deep and steep gorge known as Scott's Gulf in a remote area west of Scott Pinnacle, a locally-known mountain.
Tributaries of the Big South Fork, Army Corps of Engineers, 1977 The river draws water from a drainage basin of Carboniferous rock in the Cumberland Plateau. [6]: 21 Taken together, the Big South Fork and its tributaries drain between 1,123 square miles (2,910 km 2) [7]: 39 and 1,382 square miles (3,580 km 2), [6]: 28 of which about 17% is covered by the associated National Recreation Area.
The lower Big Sandy is impounded by the Kentucky Dam project of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); it forms the biggest single embayment on Kentucky Lake. The head of the embayment is the site of the town of Big Sandy and nearby is a major "dewatering area". This is an almost flat area (superficially resembling a tidal flat) which is flooded ...
The immediate area is also the site of a state mental hospital and the Tennessee School for the Blind. Clover Bottom also is the separation of the Nashville neighborhoods of Donelson and Hermitage. Near the mouth of the Stones River into the Cumberland River, below the bridge on U.S. Highway 70, is a private golf club.
Beyond this lake, the river crosses into Van Buren County, where it continues northward through rugged hills. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] After passing the historic "Rocky River Crossing" (once part of the Trail of Tears ) along Pleasant Hill Cemetery Road, [ 7 ] the river begins its descent to the Highland Rim , losing 900 feet in elevation in less than four ...
A 40-acre (16 ha) lake offers opportunities for fishing and boating. [2] Visitor facilities include two campgrounds and a restaurant. [2] [3] Seven two-bedroom visitor cabins built in the park in 2010 were the first vacation homes in a U.S. state park to receive LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. [6]