Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Fall Creek Falls State Park, Pikeville, TN

We have friends who are going to work for Amazon.com in Kentucky so we are traveling with them now through Tennessee to get there.

On our way we stop at this beautiful state park. I was at this park probably 35 years ago and remembered it to be a great park.



This is a paradise of more than 20,000 acres which are sprawled across the eastern top of the rugged Cumberland Plateau.
The Fall Creek Fall waterfall, which is in the picture below, stands at 256 feet and is the highest waterfall in the eastern United States. There are other waterfalls in the park also.


Jeff and our friends took the hike down to the bottom of the falls as you can see in the picture below.











We took a brief and short hike to Buzzard's Roost and Jeff took this shot below while crossing a tiny rock bridge to the other side.







We later took a short hike to Piney Falls and had to cross this long suspension bridge. I don't do well with heights and of course you know everyone shook the bridge as hard as they could !






After our hikes we sat down for a cozy picture at an overlook and as you can see it was a beautiful fall day.








See ya down the road !





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