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Chuck Swan State Forest: Union County: Franklin State Forest: Marion County: John Tully State Forest: Lauderdale County: Lewis State Forest: Lewis County: Lone Mountain State Forest: Morgan County: Martha Sundquist State Forest: Cocke County: Natchez Trace State Forest: Henderson County: Pickett State Forest: Pickett County: Prentice Cooper ...
Tennessee has 59 designated state parks, operated by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The largest park, Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail, is made up of land along the Cumberland Trail, stretching from Cumberland Gap at the Virginia state line to Prentice Cooper State Forest in Marion County, just northwest of Chattanooga. [1]
A map of Köppen climate types in Tennessee. Most of the state has a humid subtropical climate, with the exception of some of the higher elevations in the Appalachians, which are classified as having a mountain temperate or humid continental climate due to cooler temperatures. [56]
September 1, 2007 The FAA says five Jehovah's Witnesses ministers from East Tennessee were killed when their small plane crashed in the Cherokee National Forest on Holston Mountain shortly after takeoff. A passing airplane spotted the smoldering wreckage around 7:00 p.m. Saturday about a mile and a half down the southern side of the mountain ...
The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly 440 miles (710 km) from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers. Native Americans created and used the trail for centuries. Early European and American ...
Foothills Parkway's Chilhowee entrance at Walland Foothills Parkway approaching Look Rock, on the crest of Chilhowee Mountain. The foothills of the Great Smokies consist of a series of low mountains and hills lying roughly between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the south and the flatlands of the Tennessee River and French Broad River valleys to the north.
The Big South Fork region contains one of the highest concentrations of natural bridges in the eastern United States and the area is located in parts of Scott, Fentress, Pickett, and Morgan counties in Tennessee, and McCreary County in Kentucky. Charit Creek Lodge is a wilderness lodge, accessible by trail, located within the park. [4]
State Route 301 (SR 301) is a 0.9-mile-long (1.4 km) state highway located entirely in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.The route originates at a junction with SR 285 in Mount Crest within Bledsoe State Forest, and its northern terminus is at a dead end at the Bledsoe County Correctional Complex's Tricor Farm facility, formerly the Taft Youth Center, a facility of the Tennessee Department of Children ...