The first "walk” was brief. It was over a swimming bridge and across the top of this small lake at Picketts State Park in Tennessee. So, I have added a few more of the Twin Arches hike from yesterday. Picketts is adjacent to the Big South Fork area and besides the lake had very nice cabins. All this was built by the CCC in the 1930s and this particular park honors those workers.
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On Saturday Jill and two friends (Jim and Leann) drove north of Knoxville to Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. It is immense park covering 125,000 acres on the Tennessee and Kentucky border. The drive took about 2 hours to our first stop the Twin Arches trail. These are two large arches and if they were out west at Arches National Park they would be among the stars of the show. Here, because they are remote and in the midst of a vast forest they are popular but the parking lot only holds about 20 cars and the dirt and gravel road - one lane for much of it - is nearly 5 miles long to get to the hike starting point. But what a treat for a big payoff with just over a 1.5 mile hike (and 100 stairs on each leg of the trail) on the loop trail.
I was able to squeeze, literally, through this opening - cool spot.