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The tunnel is part of the Powell River Trail which is now a walking and biking trail located in Appalachia, VA. [2] Though known locally as the "world's shortest railroad tunnel", at 47 feet 7 inches (14.50 m) long, it is 1 foot 7 inches (0.48 m) longer than the Westmoreland Tunnel, in Westmoreland, Tennessee. [3]
Powell Mountain (or "Powells Mountain") is a mountain ridge of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a long and narrow ridge, running northeast to southwest, from about Norton, Virginia, to near Tazewell, Tennessee. [1] It separates the Clinch River basin and the Powell River basin of Powell Valley. It was named ...
It is bounded on the north by the North Fork of the Powell River; Stone Mountain is on the south side of the wilderness. There are two trails in the area. The Stone Mountain Trail (Forest Trail 207) begins at Cave Spring Campground and is 6.7 miles long in the wilderness, but extends northeast beyond the wilderness boundary.
With the completion of the missing links, the Forest Service renamed the combined trails as the Massanutten Trail and provided orange blazes along the trail's entire length around Fort Valley. The Woodstock Tower, built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps , is located on Powell Mountain, perched at 2,000 feet above Woodstock in the west ...
There are 85 miles (137 km) of hiking trails, ranging from shorter routes such as the 2.6 miles (4.2 km) Sugar Run Trail, to the 21 miles (34 km) Ridge Trail, which spans the park and reaches an elevation of 3,513 feet (1,071 m). [18] The nearby Wilderness Road Campground includes 160 campsites. [17] No hunting is permitted within the park.
The more-gentle northwestern slope is the dip slope and roughly parallel to the dip of the Early Pennsylvanian sandstones. This northwestward dip is the northern limb of the Powell Valley Anticline. Cumberland Mountain forms the drainage divide between the Cumberland River to the north and the Powell River to the south.
The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest along Little Santeetlah Creek is a rare example of an old growth cove hardwood forest, an extremely diverse forest type unique to the Appalachian Mountains. Although there are many types of trees in Joyce Kilmer, dominant species include poplar, hemlock, red and white oak, basswood, beech, and sycamore.
Guest River, North Fork Clinch River, Powell River, Coal Creek, Poplar Creek, Emory River The Clinch River is a river that flows southwest for more than 300 miles (480 km) through the Great Appalachian Valley in the U.S. states of Virginia and Tennessee , gathering various tributaries , including the Powell River , before joining the Tennessee ...