Ballplay Falls in Monroe Co, TN.
How to Use Tennessee Landforms--
Three Part Blog Series
Edited to Note: There is a new Tennessee Landforms that has been taken over by Chuck Sutherland after Tom felt he was no longer prepared to keep it going. Here is the link. The old site is still up and running at present. I anticipate that at some point in the future that site may disappear. I am NOT deleting all my entries about Tennessee Landforms and how to use it. It will hurt my blog standings to do so. You wouldn't believe the problems it would cause. I am not yet prepared to write a new tutorial on how to use the site. I feel I need to learn a bit more. 10/15/2024
Dana Koogler
posted August 21, 2020
Edited to Add : As of May 2024 the original Tennessee Landforms site remains up and functioning as usual. The new Tennessee Landforms site is also up and running, but remains a work in progress.
I am making note of that here as a warning that in due time the old site may go away. At that point the How to Use blog series will become irrelevant. I am leaving them all on my blog because deleting posts creates problems for me with Google. I may write a new tutorial for the current site at some point.
I have been getting some requests for help on how to find waterfalls.
I have seen an uptick in the reading of these tutorials. I have decided to place the links to each part of the three part course on how to use this resource on one post. I will place it on the front page of my blog as a "Featured Post". It will be easier to access. The search box on my blog in the top left corner hasn't been working properly the last week or so.
Why would I want to use Tennessee Landforms? Why would I even care about it? I don't know if you've noticed or not, but since the corona virus pandemic hit anything and everything outdoor has blown wide open. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon wanting to get outside. I consider that a good thing. It is healthy. The database was created by Tom Dunigan and he has put a lot of work into categorizing and listing things. He is a self described list maker. Thank the Lord for him because his lists have opened a wide world of beautiful places to me to explore. If you want to go see the same stuff everyone else does...... that's cool. If you want to have your own adventures and see some stuff that is not necessarily in guidebooks or on maps.. you have to use other methods of searching.
Some of the categories of things this will help you visit are:
- arches
- waterfalls
- lakes
- lookout towers
- mountain peaks/high points
- sinkholes many of which contain caves, waterfalls , disappearing streams, beautiful wildflowers.
- rock formations
- grassy balds
Above: chunks of rock covered with purple phacelia down in a sinkhole!
Above: me and Kenny in front of Big Laurel Falls in Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness. Photo by Waterfall Rich Stevenson
Below: Four Mile Creek Falls in Deer Lodge, TN
Below is a video of Mill Creek Cascade in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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