Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Topographic of the Great Tennessee River Gorge


 

A topographic map of the Nickajack where the Tennessee River winds itself through a gorge cut through Walden's Ridge, a spur of the great Cumberland Plateau, and Racoon Mountain.  The Sequatchie Valley, though not really part of the Nickajack, is part of the same long rift valley which the Tennessee flows through before cutting west and away from Brown's Valley near Guntersville. Browns Valley is the name of this same valley as it stretches southwest from Guntersville, dividing Sand Mountain from Brindlee Mountain.  

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