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On The Road – Kosh III – Pogue Creek Canyon State State Natural Area

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Kosh III

Pogue Creek Canyon is next to Pickett State Park. The area by the parking lot for Pogue Creek is a designated International Dark Sky location.

We hiked several miles in the park. Yes, that is sand as the bluffs above us are sandstone.  Not a hard hike but very scenic. These pics are a glimpse of the beauty of this part of Tennessee.

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Pogue Creek Canyon, Jamestown Tn
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  1. 1.

    eclare

    Very pretty!  I stayed at a cabin near there years ago, it may have been at Pickett’s State Park.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    I’ve spent a lot of time in Tennessee, with over 10,000 caves is it any wonder? It is beautiful damned near everywhere. Well, some of the towns ain’t so pretty (stay away from Monteagle, they threw my ass in jail there) (and were absolutely gleeful about it: “ATM! ATM! ATM raght down the street! ATM!”) Chattanooga was always nice to drive thru and maybe grab a bite to eat too.

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    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    On 2 September 1957, Martin Luther King joined with the staff and the participants of a leadership training conference at Highlander Folk School to celebrate its 25th anniversary. In his closing address to the conference, King praised Highlander for its “noble purpose and creative work,” and contribution to the South of “some of its most responsible leaders in this great period of transition” (Papers 4:270).

    In 1932, Myles Horton, a former student of Reinhold Niebuhr, established the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee.  The school, situated in the Tennessee hills, initially focused on labor and adult education. By the early 1950s, however, it shifted its attention to race relations. Highlander was one of the few places in the South where integrated meetings could take place, and served as a site of leadership training for southern civil rights activists. Rosa Parks attended a 1955 workshop at Highlander four months before refusing to give up her bus seat, an act that ignited the Montgomery bus boycott.

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    Betty

    Sandstone and water together create amazing images. That first  shot, though, looks a little scary.

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    WaterGirl

    Amazing pictures.  I’m not sure this is the right word to express this, but the word that comes to mind when I see these is primal.

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    delphinium

    All the different ‘patterns’ in the bluffs are amazing and that last photo with the sun lighting up the sandstone is just lovely.

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    pieceofpeace

    Wish I’d spent time exploring TN beyond its music roots and venues, which I loved.  Your photos give a good sense of sandstone’s surreal surfaces.  Are all those holes suitable for inhabiting by birds, bees, flying critters or are they more delicate?  Wonder is everywhere when we want to find it.

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    Kosh III

    @pieceofpeace:

    The rocks and holes are often very fragile, I’ve seen rock layers that were paper thin.   I have seen insects and snakes but no birds.

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