Cumberland Plateau

State Natural Areas in the Cumberland Plateau

State Natural Area (Link)	County	Description
Big Bone Cave	Van Buren	Big Bone Cave is a 400-acre natural area located in Van Buren County on the Cumberland Plateau escarpment. It is named for the discovery of the bones of a giant ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) in 1811.
Chimneys	Marion	The Chimneys is a 33-acre natural area located in Marion County. It is located in what is commonly referred to as the Pocket Wilderness where Pocket Creek cuts through Cumberland Plateau sandstone forming Pocket Gorge.
Clifty Creek	Morgan
Colditz Cove	Fentress	Colditz Cove is a 165-acre natural area located approximately two miles east of Allardt in Fentress County. Its most impressive feature is Northrup Falls, which is one of Tennessee’s most stunning waterfalls plunging more than 60 feet over a protruding rock ledge into a scenic, narrow, gorge along Big Branch Creek.
Fall Creek Falls	Bledsoe, Van Buren, White	Fall Creek Falls is a 16,181-acre natural area located within Fall Creek Falls State Park in Bledsoe and Van Buren counties. Its waterfalls, cascades, sparkling streams, gorges, forests, and cave features make it one of the most visited natural areas and state parks in the southeast.
Fallling Water Falls	Hamilton	Falling Water Falls is a 136-acre natural area in Hamilton County. It is named for the 110 foot high waterfall on Little Falling Water Creek that drops over the resistant sandstone cap of the Cumberland Plateau.
Grundy Forest	Grundy	Grundy Forest is a 234-acre natural area located in Grundy County. The area features cascading streams, waterfalls, rockhouses, rock formations, hemlock cove forest, dry upland pine forest, and steep cliffs.
Hawkins Cove	Franklin	Hawkins Cove is a 249-acre natural area located in Franklin County. The State purchased Hawkins Cove to protect a population of Cumberland rosinweed (Silphium brachiatum), a type of sunflower found only on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee.
Hicks Gap	Marion	Hick's Gap is a 350-acre natural area in Marion County. The natural area occurs along the slopes of the Cumberland Plateau Escarpment in the Tennessee River Gorge just outside of Chattanooga.
Honey Creek	Fentress	Honey Creek is a 109-acre natural area in Pickett County. One of its most outstanding features is the incredibly scenic overlook 250 feet above the South Fork of Cumberland River.
Hubbard's Cave	Warren	Hubbard's Cave is a 50-acre natural area located in Warren County. It is ecologically significant because the cave serves as a hibernaculum for two federally endangered bat species, the gray bat (Myotis grisescens) and the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis).
Laurel-Snow	Rhea	Laurel-Snow is a 2,259-acre natural area located in Rhea County. The natural area occurs on the Walden Ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and contains a section of gorge that is deeply dissected by Morgan, Henderson, Laurel, and Richland Creeks.
Lost Creek	White	Lost Creek State Natural Area is a diverse area situated on the western flank of the Cumberland Plateau. Its scenic highlight is the beautiful Lost Creek Falls in White County.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lee Carter	Franklin
Natural Bridge	Franklin	Natural Bridge is a three-acre natural area located in Franklin County. Natural Bridge is a 25 feet high natural sandstone arch with a span of 50 feet that provides a scenic overlook of Lost Cove.
North Chickamauga Creek Gorge	Hamilton, Sequatchie	North Chickamauga Creek is a 7,093-acre natural area located in Hamilton and Sequatchie Counties. It is an outstanding deep gorge cut into the sandstone plateau of Walden's Ridge on the Cumberland Plateau.
Ozone Falls	Cumberland	Ozone Falls is a 43-acre natural area in Cumberland County. Ozone Falls plunges 110 feet over a sandstone cap rock into a deep blue, rock-strewn pool. Because of its picturesque beauty and easy access, Ozone Falls was selected for filming scenes for the movie “Jungle Book.”
Piney Falls	Rhea	Piney Falls is a 440-acre natural area located in Rhea County where Little Piney and Soak Creek have carved deep gorges into the Cumberland Plateau. It is a pristine forest land featuring creeks, deep gorges, waterfalls and old growth forest.
Pogue Creek	Fentress	Pogue Creek Canyon is a 3,000-acre natural area located on the Cumberland Plateau in Fentress County. The topography and plant communities are characteristic of the Cumberland Plateau with rich forests and scenic sandstone formations.
Rugby	Morgan, Scott	Rugby is a 667-acre state natural area located southwest of the town of Historic Rugby in Morgan County on the Cumberland Plateau. Little Creek drains through the property and drops into White Oak Creek, which empties into the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River.
Savage Gulf	Grundy, Sequatchie	Savage Gulf is 15,590-acre natural area located in Grundy and Sequatchie Counties. Carved like a giant crowfoot into the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau, it is one of Tennessee's most scenic wilderness areas.
Sherwood Forest	Franklin
Stinging Fork Falls	Rhea	Stinging Fork Falls is a 783-acre natural area located in Rhea County. It is named for the 30-foot waterfall located within the Stinging Fork gorge. The creek flows over the fan shaped falls, then quickly slips through chutes, and tumbles over cascades below the falls.
Twin Arches	Fentress, Pickett, Scott	Twin Arches is a 1,500-acre natural area in parts of Fentress, Scott, and Pickett Counties. It contains two impressive geological formations known as the Twin Arches, that form the largest natural bridge complex known in Tennessee.
Virgin Falls	White	Virgin Falls is 1,157-acre natural area located in White County. It is named for Virgin Falls, which is formed by an underground stream that emerges from a cave, then drops over a 110-foot high cliff before disappearing into another cave at the bottom of the sink.
Walls of Jericho	Franklin	The Walls of Jericho is a 750-acre natural area in Franklin County. The southern boundary of the natural area follows the Alabama-Tennessee state line. The “Walls” is an impressive geological feature that forms a large bowl shaped amphitheater.