by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Mar 31, 2022 | Hiking, Tennessee, Water Falls
The North Chickamauga Creek Gorge is nine miles from our home and a work in progress. The powerful Creek is 32-miles long, a main tributary to the Tennessee River and cuts deeply through the sandstone of Walden’s Ridge. A hodgepodge of rough and tumble trails...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Hiking, Travel
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 | Jan 27, 2022 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee, Travel, Water Falls
With a population of 2,500, Sewanee is quite quaint and surprisingly forward for a hamlet in middle Tennessee. Local custom dictates tapping the roof of your vehicle, while passing through impressive stone gates to enter town. The pointed arches , ribbed vaults and...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Dec 11, 2021 | Hiking, Tennessee, Travel, Water Falls
Karen and I were showing pictures of Piney Falls to the beerista at Monkey Town Brewing Company in Dayton, TN, where the Scopes Monkey Trial took place. She was impressed and surprised to hear Piney Falls was just 30 minutes away. She said, “I always go to...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 13, 2021 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee, Travel, Water Falls
The fall colors in eastern Tennessee exploded this week into rusty oranges and browns accented by brilliant patches of yellow and scarlet. We headed for higher terrain on the Cumberland Plateau to get a bird’s-eye view of nature’s spectacular display. The...
