Gooch Creek Arch 78x45

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Remarks:

References: JNAD:TENN-58, C/P:16

Corgan/Parks couldn't locate this arch, but we found it using the description in Nelson (TN Geological Survery Resources v. 5, no. 2, 1915, pp. 76-80). This massive arch is off-trail on Bowaters land east of the Laurel-Snow Pocket Wilderness . Paine Creek used to be named Gooch Creek (see 1910 topo map).

There are also some gravity arches/windows along the same bluff line at the mouth of Paine Creek.
35.53858,-85.02072

35.53959,-85.017938

The trail to Laurel Falls also goes through a rock "arch" (leaner), Fat Man's Squeeze, at 35.54633,-85.02775.

   © Tom Dunigan