Autumn in Tennessee

by Norma Brandsberg

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Autumn in Tennessee

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

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Photograph - Photograph

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The Raccoon Mountain project is TVA’s largest hydroelectric facility. Water is pumped to the reservoir on top of the mountain and then used to generate electricity when additional power is needed by the TVA system.

Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant is located in southeast Tennessee on a site that overlooks the Tennessee River near Chattanooga at Laurel Point pictured here. We visited this area in March and had to come back in November to catch the gorgeous colors in peak leaf season off Laurel Point.

The plant works like a large storage battery. During periods of low demand, water is pumped from Nickajack Reservoir at the base of the mountain to the reservoir built at the top. It takes 28 hours to fill the upper reservoir. When demand is high, water is released via a tunnel drilled through the center of the mountain to drive generators in the mountain’s underground power plant.

The area around Raccoon Mountain, Laurel Point, is a state-designated Wildlife Observation Area. The mountaintop is home to whitetail deer, woodchucks, gray foxes and, of course, raccoons. The most compelling wildlife attraction of the area is a large wintering population of bald eagles, which can be sighted from the overlook as they hunt in the woods and waters.

The adjacent day-use area offers more than 28 miles of mountain biking trails—with names like Live Wire, Megawatt, Switch Yard and High Voltage—for riders of all abilities, as well as a bike-washing station. The trails are open to hikers as well.

The area was open in March on our first visit, but was closed during Covid in November and I had to hike beyond the barricades to get the photograph near sunset. Our visit encompassed the Smoky Mountains, Montgomery, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee to catch autumn at it's best in the Appalachian Mountains and Cherokee National Forest.

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