Tennessee Wildernesses

Bald River Gorge Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 463
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=26
Wilderness | Bald River Gorge Wilderness
State | TN
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 26
Abbreviated Name | Bald_River_Gorge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BaldRiverGorge .jpg
Acreage | 3791
Description | Bald River is a small wild trout stream flowing cold and clear northward through the middle of the steep-sided Bald River Gorge and hence down the middle of this Wilderness. The Wilderness ends just before...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 26FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44299

Big Frog Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 471
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=38
Wilderness | Big Frog Wilderness
State | GA/TN
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 38
Abbreviated Name | Big_Frog
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigFrog.jpg
Acreage | 8502
Description | Distinguished by 4,224-foot Big Frog Mountain, the vast majority of this forested mountain Wilderness lies in Tennessee, with only a sliver in Georgia. It borders the Cohutta Wilderness. The Big Frog-Cohutta...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 38FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44307

Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 474
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=43
Wilderness | Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
State | TN
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 43
Abbreviated Name | Big_Laurel_Branch
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigLaurelBranch .jpg
Acreage | 10804
Description | Numerous streams drain from a major northeast-southwest-trending ridge crest in Big Laurel Branch Wilderness, which includes the completely forested southern end of Iron Mountain. Hidden behind Iron Mountain's...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 43FS
Designated | 1986
ORIG_FID | 44310

Citico Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Citico Creek Wilderness
State | TN
Abbreviated Name | Citico_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CiticoCreek.jpg
Description | Natural splendor has regained a strong foothold in this Wilderness, the largest in Tennessee, ever since fire put an end to a devastating logging period. You can actually find stands of virgin forest in...

Cohutta Wilderness
Wilderness | Cohutta Wilderness
State | GA/TN
Abbreviated Name | Cohutta
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Cohutta.jpg
Description | Most of mountainous Cohutta, the state's second largest Wilderness, lies in Georgia and within the Cohutta Wildlife Management Area. But a small portion runs over the border into Tennessee. Immediately...

Gee Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Gee Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gee_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GeeCreek.jpg
Description | To the early settlers in South Carolina, the Cherokee Indians lived "over the hills" in eastern Tennessee. People today refer to the region, which includes the southern portion of Cherokee National Forest...

Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
Wilderness | Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
State | NC/TN
Abbreviated Name | Joyce_Kilmer_Slickrock
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/joycekilmer.jpg
Description | Joyce Kilmer acquired some fame as a journalist, serving on the staff of the New York Times from 1913 to 1918, but most people remember him as the author of the poem "Trees" ("I think that I shall never...

Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Little_Frog_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | Little Frog Mountain Wilderness, now covered in second-growth forest, encompasses a horseshoe-shaped valley, Pressley Cove. It is formed by Little Frog Mountain on the southeast and Dry Pond Lead on the...

Pond Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Pond Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pond_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PondMountain.jpg
Description | If this Wilderness were a dartboard, players would aim for a 4,329-foot bull's-eye known as Pond Mountain, the highest point in the area. Rugged and steep, the terrain has numerous inclines that exceed...

Upper Bald River Wilderness
Wilderness | Upper Bald River Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Upper_Bald_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/UpperBaldRiver.jpg
Description | The Upper Bald River Wilderness, along with the existing Bald River Gorge Wilderness (designated in 1984) constitutes most of the Bald River watershed. This beautiful and rugged landscape is dominated...

Sampson Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Sampson Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sampson_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SampsonMountain.jpg
Description | The five clear, swift, rocky streams that course through this Wilderness, which drain secluded hollows shadowed by steep and open ridges, plunge over several waterfalls, some of them dramatic cascades....

Unaka Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Unaka Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Unaka_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/UnakaMountain.jpg
Description | This Wilderness spills down the western slopes of the Unaka Mountains, which form part of the boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina. Birch, beech, maple, oak, cherry, poplar, hickory, pine, hemlock...