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The Tennessee River Gorge is a 26-mile (42 km) canyon formed by the Tennessee River known locally as Cash Canyon. It is the fourth largest river gorge in the Eastern United States. The gorge is cut into the Cumberland Plateau as the river winds its way into Alabama from Tennessee. The Tennessee River Gorge was also known as Walden Gorge.
All river tubes and kayaks must portage around the weir dam that is located immediately downstream of the covered bridge in downtown Elizabethton. There is a Class III/IV section of whitewater referred to as the Doe Gorge that begins at the bridge over the river on Bear Cage Rd. and ends at the take-out at Hampton High School.
The Tennessee River Gorge Trust is a non-profit land trust conservation group acquiring and maintaining conservation areas, building trails, and conducting environmental studies and education programs in the Tennessee River Gorge near Chattanooga, Tennessee. [1] [2] It is involved in preserving natural areas along the Tennessee River. [3]
The Tennessee River flowing through the Tennessee River Gorge. The "Steamboat Bill" Hudson Memorial Bridge in Decatur, Alabama. Natchez Trace Parkway, crossing the Tennessee River in Cherokee, Alabama. The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. [5]
The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, commonly known as Big South Fork, preserves the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and its tributaries in northeastern Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky. Within it are reminders of the time when the area was subjected to logging and mining expansion.
Little River is a 60-mile (97 km) river in Tennessee which drains a 380-square-mile (980 km 2) area containing some of the most spectacular scenery in the southeastern United States. The first 18 miles (29 km) of the river are all located within the borders of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park .
Bald River Gorge Wilderness is a 3,721-acre (15 km 2) wilderness area of Cherokee National Forest that lies within Monroe County in the U.S. state of Tennessee, designated in 1984. Its elevation is 2,642 feet (805 m) above sea level .
The Hiwassee River originates from a spring on the north slope of Rocky Mountain in Towns County in the northern area of the State of Georgia.It flows northward into North Carolina before turning westward into Tennessee, flowing into the Tennessee River a few miles west of what is now State Route 58 in Meigs County, Tennessee.