It only took us 1 hour and 3 minutes to get from Straw Plains pike in Knoxville to our trail destination: Houston Valley campground which was on a state highway (101 or 107 :) ) off 25East We only drove 14 miles out of Newport then took a left and went about 5 miles and stopped at the campground. Across the street is the trail head saying Gumtree and it is nice trail (keep straight at first intersection, then hiked up little steep at times but not bad to an intersection where you can see its a nice trail for even little mountain biking. We took a left to head up to meadow creek road and fire tower. This section in the winter time made it easy to see way out over the valley and it was great. Then we hit the forest road and took a right and walked half mile or more up to the tower. Great 360 views made the climb well worth it. We hiked back down the road a few miles then took left on the gum creek connector trail and ended up back at our cars. Nice nice hike ! https://rcpt.hightail.com/2702688056/795e688d5f9d144e75cdb3e3f018a496?cid=tr-1001013 Here is video that photog Jerry Owens took on our hike.
missy
Hightail has become rather slow these days. But cloud is not safe anymore. I am trying Binfer these days. See cloudless file sharing
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