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Beech River: Tennessee River: 38.3 mi (61.6 km) Lexington: Big Sandy River: Tennessee River: 60 mi (97 km) Bruceton: Big South Fork of the Cumberland River: Cumberland River: 76 mi (122 km) none (Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area) Blackburn Fork River: Roaring River: 14.5 mi [2] none (Cummins Falls State Park) Blood River ...
The Tennessee River has historically been a major highway for riverboats through the South, and today they are frequently used along the river. Major ports include Guntersville, Chattanooga , Decatur , Yellow Creek, and Muscle Shoals .
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.
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 Sequatchie River is a 116-mile-long (187 km) [2] waterway that drains the Sequatchie Valley, a large valley in the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. It empties into the Tennessee River downstream from Chattanooga near the Tennessee- Alabama state line.
West Chickamauga Creek can be navigated by kayak or canoe from near Gordon and Lee Mill (Chickamauga, GA) northeast, to where it joins with the South Chickamauga Creek, and from there northward to the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its mean annual flow velocity (estimate) is 0.77 feet (0.23 m) per second. [7]
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 Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States.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.