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 .

There are also some gravity arches/windows along the same bluff line at the mouth of Paine Creek.
35° 32.3149N 85° 1.2448W

35° 32.3756N 85° 1.0763W

The trail to Laurel Falls also goes through a rock "arch" (leaner), Fat Man's Squeeze, at 35° 32.78N 85° 1.665W.

   © Tom Dunigan