Big Soddy Creek 3.24.18

Tom and Don were the only hikers on this Saturday hike. We began the hike at Black Valley Road

under overcast and lightly raining skies. The temperature was in the upper 40's. We followed the trail

west along Soddy Creek for a little over a mile to the bridge that crosses the creek. The trail along this

section is basically a gravel road. We passed a water falls which was running fairly well. We crossed

the bridge and instead of following the blazed trail north which then meets up with the Cumberland

Trail, we decided to follow the unblazed trail southwest and follow the creek. We traveled about 1.2

miles along this trail to a point where it split. We took the trail up the mountain approximately .2 miles

to a rocky bluff where the trail splits again. This part of the trail was fairly steep and slippery due to

the recent rains. At the split it started to rain again and we decided to descend back to the creek due to

the trails slipperiness. We followed the trail along the creek until we reached the edge of the park

boundary. We followed the trail back to the bridge and traveled north to the park boundary gate that

leads to the Cumberland Trail. We then turned around and trekked out of the park. Don and I had what we considered a good 5 mile hike.

If you would like to see a few pictures of this hike, click here.