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| BRIDGE CREEK CAVE | |
| During wet weather Bridge Creek Cave is one of the principle sources of Bridge Creek. The mouth is 15 feet high and 10 feet wide and is on a low bluff near a huge sandstone boulder which has fallen to the floor of the cove from the cliffs above. The cave runs northeast for 900 feet over a rocky stream bed, then turns south for an additional 1500 feet. It averages 6 feet high and 10 feet wide. At the end of the cave is a 300 feet long. 8 feet wide and 40 feet high, which may be reached by crawling for 300 feet over sharp rocks and through a stream. In the canyon are many beautiful stalactites, some of them are 15 feet long and of a dark-brown color. Much of the canyon has a sandy floor. At 1350 feet is an opening which leads into an upper level consisting of several hundred yards of rocky crawl ways interspersed with small dome pits. The upper level rejoins the stream passage at several points. | |
| ARCH CREEK | |
| The entrance to Arch Cave is located at the bottom of a huge boulder- strewn sink. Its extent has not been determined. | |
| FORK MOUNTAIN CAVE | |
| Fork Mountain is the local name applied to the interflow between Scuffle Creek and Bridge Creek. The mouth of the cave is at the west end of a large sink hole 100 feet wide and 150 feet long, located in thin woods on a limestone bench on the side of the mountain. It is an opening 50 feet wide and 10 feet high. At the back of the entrance room, a chamber 75 feet wide, 50 feet long, and 15 feet wide, is a wide slot, which drops downward vertically for 50 feet over a dry flowstone bank. Dead stalactites hang over the edge of the drop. On the south side of this slot one can climb down through collapsed blocks and crawl along a narrow ledge above the bottom of the pit, and continue on into the cave. The main cave extends north for 300 feet through a series of huge dome pits 30 feet in diameter and 110 feet high, and south for 75 feet to a breakdown cemented with flowstone. The domes are some of the largest and most spectacular encountered in Tennessee. | |
