Trail: Stone Door Loop (Stone Door to Big Creek Gulf to Big Creek Rim Trails)
Location: Savage Gulf State Recreation Area; Stone Door Ranger Station, Beersheba Springs, TN
Trail Length: 9.8 miles, 13.4 miles if adding side trails to Ranger Falls and Greeter Falls (both are well worth the effort)
Difficulty: Moderate
Solitude: Moderate to good (depending on time of year)
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This trail packs a lot of beautiful and diverse scenery into a relatively small loop. With ancient rock formations, multiple flowing waterfalls, swimming holes, and several gorgeous misty-mountain overlooks , this hike offers some full on nature porn. The beauty-to-effort ratio is very much in the hiker’s favor. Only one section of this trail is particularly strenuous, and some of the prettiest parts of this hike are along the very flat and easy to traverse rim of the Big Creek Gulf. This is probably one of the better trails in all of the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and appears very well maintained and managed, too. Stone Door definitely belongs on any hiker’s list who is anywhere close to this region; here’s why…
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