by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 6, 2021 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee, Travel, Water Falls
We ventured up on the Cumberland Plateau outside of Spring City, TN on Friday to kickoff Labor Day Weekend 2021. The Plateau’s tableland elevation varies around 1,440 feet and its deepest plunge into Little Piney Creek gorge is 540 feet. We started our hike in...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Aug 26, 2021 | boats, Tennessee, Travel
Chickamauga Dam and Lock were built in the late ’30s with “Growing Concrete” made from alkali aggregate. In 1997, 2008 and 2021 a 5/8-inch slot, 38-feet wide and 107-feet deep was cut completely through the dam from top to bottom for expansion. The...