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From Knoxville, it flows southwest through East Tennessee into Chattanooga before crossing into Alabama. It travels through the Huntsville and Decatur area before reaching the Muscle Shoals area, and eventually forms a small part of the state's border with Mississippi, before returning to Tennessee. The river misses Georgia by
Tennessee River: Chattanooga: Clinch River: Tennessee River: 337 mi (542 km) Oak Ridge: Coal Creek: Clinch River: 10.3 mi (16.6 km) Rocky Top: Collins River: Caney Fork River: 67 mi (108 km) Gruetli-Laager: Conasauga Creek: Hiwassee River: 42.8 mi (68.9 km) Coker Creek: Conasauga River: Oostanaula River: 93 mi (150 km) Conasauga (Polk County ...
The Tennessee River Blueway is a 50-mile (80 km) section of the Tennessee River that flows between the Chickamauga Dam and the Nickajack Dam and through downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Tennessee River Gorge. The City of Chattanooga, the Tennessee River Gorge Trust, and other agencies have designated the section of river as a blueway for ...
From there, the river travels southwest, absorbing additional tributaries of the Little River, the Little Tennessee, and the Clinch, and further down, the Hiwassee and the Ocoee (both of which have sources in Georgia), before reaching Chattanooga. The river then enters the Tennessee River Gorge as it winds its way through the Cumberland Plateau ...
For paddlers, Chattanooga offers the Tennessee River Blueway, a 50-mile (80 km) recreational section of the Tennessee River that flows through Chattanooga and the Tennessee River Gorge. The Tennessee Aquarium has a high speed catamaran, the River Gorge Explorer, to allow up to 70 people to explore the Tennessee River Gorge. [203]
The river begins in East Tennessee at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers just north of Knoxville, and runs south through Chattanooga, whose city limits touch the Tennessee–Georgia border in some places. It then runs into Alabama south of Nickajack Dam less than one mile from the tripoint where Tennessee, Georgia, and ...
The 688-mile-long (1,107 km) [2] river drains almost 18,000 square miles (47,000 km 2) of southern Kentucky and north-central Tennessee. The river flows generally west from a source in the Appalachian Mountains to its confluence with the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky, and the mouth of the Tennessee River.
The Tennessee Riverwalk is a 13-mile (21-km) riverside path which parallels the Tennessee River from the Chickamauga Dam to downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is part of the Tennessee Riverpark System featuring the Tennessee Riverpark, Coolidge Park , Renaissance Park, Ross's Landing , the Walnut Street Bridge , the Blue Goose Hollow section ...