by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 20, 2022 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 16, 2022 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee
Stringer’s Ridge is a 20-minute drive from our house, making it an easy choice for an “Urban-Wilderness Hike.”
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 6, 2022 | Hiking, Tennessee, Water Falls
100-foot Julia Falls is inaccessible on foot. Flowing from a sheer bluff on the side of a vast canyon in the Tennessee River Gorge, a way to hike to the cataract remains uncharted. Just minutes from downtown Chattanooga, Signal Mountain is a maze of crossing roads,...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 24, 2022 | Hiking, Travel, Water Falls
After our visit to Gibbs Gardens (4-20-22), we spent the night in Dahlonega, GA. We departed the “Gold City” early for the 45-minute drive to the Raven Cliff Falls Trailhead and were the first car to arrive in the small parking lot of one of...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Feb 17, 2022 | Hiking, Hiking, Travel
It took millions of years for the Little River to carve its 600-foot-deep canyon into the flat top of the narrow southwestern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau that stretches 75-miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee across northwestern Georgia and ends in Gadsden, Alabama....
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Feb 11, 2022 | Hiking, Travel, Water Falls
I was curious about DeSoto Falls’ name and found that Hernando de Soto Left Tampa, FL in 1540 with 600 conquistadors on a 4,000-mile trek north that included South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and ALABAMA. Along...
