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Welcome to Waterfalls of the Cumberlands

Waterfall

    Nothing can harm me at all

    My worries seem so very small

    With my waterfall

I can see

    My rainbow calling me

    Through the misty breeze

    Of my waterfall

Waterfall

    Don't ever change your ways

    Fall with me for a million days

    Oh my waterfall

                                            James Marshall Hendrix, 1969

This section is devoted to photos that I have taken of waterfalls in the Cumberland Mountains. Some of the things featured here are easily accessable in parks or wilderness areas, others are deep into the woods, back in the hollows and gulfs of the Cumberland Mountains. The Cumberland Mountains are a general, catch-all name for the hills that run through North Georgia, East Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and even into Pennsylvania. In Tennessee these hills are known as the Highland Rim of Tennessee, the Cumberland Plateau, The Sequatchie Valley and ridge system (a part of the Cumberland Plateau that is disconnected to the rest by the Sequatchie River and it's valley), the Appalachian Mountains, and of course, the Great Smokey Mountains. These are independant geologic formations and thus distinct from one another, however the edges do overlap a bit. Maybe not to the discerning geologist's eye but to the average outdoor person it's just a bunch of limestone hills and mountains.

The Cumberland Plateau in particular is rich with water carved gorges. These gorges are sometimes referred to as gulfs. A spectacular gulf to visit is Savage Gulf, part of the South Cumberland Recreation Area near Tracy City, Tennessee. Gulfs typically feature rugged bluffs, steep valley walls and crashing waterfalls. There are streams in the bottom of some gulfs and others have karst features that swallow the water up. Virgin Falls (see index on left) flows out of a cave and plunges into a pit with no exposed upstream or downstream. This region is largly wild and remote. It is fortunate that the tourists keep to Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Smokey Mountains. That way all the amazing things featured in this website remain relatively tourist free.

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All photos Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 by Jay Greene unless otherwise noted.

These Pages last modified on 2-19-01 by Jay Greene.