We left Luray, Virginia
September 26, 2018 and took two days to travel 520 miles south and west to
Manchester, Tennessee. The main reason we chose this particular route, and
place to stop, was to attend a concert in the underground Cumberland Caverns on
September 30th (more on this in a separate post). Manchester is
located halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga, and since 2002 has been the
host city for the annual Bonnaroo Music Festival where the city’s population
swells from 10,000 to nearly 100,000 for the four day-event. Unfortunately our
timing wasn’t right for Bonnaroo, but we were there for a week and much to our
delight there was an abundance of hiking opportunities in the area.
Two of the places we
hiked are pictured below (additional hikes will be in separate posts).
South Cumberland State
Park, 25 miles from our
RV park, and located on the Cumberland Plateau, is a newer state park, filled
with meadows, waterfalls, beautiful views, and old growth trees. We took the
hike to Greeter Falls, which required a long descent on a spiral staircase, and Boardtree Falls, a trail with far fewer hikers, but with falls that were equally as rewarding.
On a separate outing we
drove about 30 miles to the Sewanee Natural Bridge, part of the 3-acre Natural
Bridge State Natural Area. A 25-feet high natural sandstone arch with a span of
50 feet, Sewanee Natural Bridge is essentially a giant sinkhole partially eroded
to form a large stone bridge.
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