Gulp and gaze at the hills, plateaus, overlooks and rivers where these spirited establishments are located. It's music to our ears to learn of the multitudinous offerings of West Tennessee music venues. Tennessee offers a variety of ways to stay active during the colder months of the year. A road trip through charming Tennessee towns linked together by the unspoiled beauty and stories of the Natchez Trace Parkway and National Scenic Byway.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established on June 15, after overcoming numerous economic, cultural, and political issues.
Today the park is the largest protected land area east of the Rocky Mountains and has become the most visited national park in the American Park System.
Rocky Fork is surrounded on three sides by the Cherokee National Forest, allowing hikers to access the Appalachian Trail. The park is a lot more primitive than other state parks in Tennessee but offers 50 miles of marked trails and old logging roads to explore, as well as equally as impressive views of the Southern Appalachians.
The Cherokee National Forest stretches from Chattanooga to the North Carolina border, covering an impressive , acres of wilderness. The Forest contains two separate sections — a northern region that sits northeast of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and a southern section that is situated southwest of the Smokies.
Cherokee is home to more than miles of trails, including miles of the Appalachian Trail, and contains eleven official wilderness areas making it a particularly popular destination for backpacking and day hiking. Gatlinburg is a vibrant town surrounded on three sides by the Great Smoky Mountains.
Mitchell in North Carolina 6, ft. Craig 6, ft. Mitchell State Park rise higher than the Clingmans Dome. The Cumberland Plateau is a run of flat hills, valleys, and round top mountains that stretches north from Chattanooga to the Kentucky border. Situated to the southwest of Chattanooga, the Lookout Mountain at 1, ft, provides views of seven states on a clear day.
West of the Cumberland Plateau, the somewhat flat highlands stretch east, and then drop down into the Nashville Basin, forming an area of productive farmland. The Gulf Coastal Plain extends across the southern states into southern Illinois.
In Tennessee, the plain begins as hilly land to the west of the Tennessee River, which slowly levels-out as it approaches the state's western edge. In the southwestern corner near Memphis it becomes a swampy lowland flood plain ending along the steep bluffs fronting the Mississippi River Delta. The major rivers of Tennessee include the Cumberland, Tennessee, and the Mississippi rivers.
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