![]() The Big South Fork's most prominent feature is the river gorge cutting through the softer Mississippian age rock beneath the hard Pennsylvanian capstone of the Cumberland Plateau. The Big South Fork was also legally designated a Kentucky Wild River by the Kentucky General Assembly through the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves' Wild Rivers Program. Charit Creek Lodge is a wilderness lodge, accessible by trail, located within the park. The Big South Fork region contains one of the highest concentrations of natural bridges in the eastern United States and the area is located in parts of Scott, Fentress, Pickett, and Morgan counties in Tennessee, and McCreary County in Kentucky. In addition, the former mining community of Blue Heron, Kentucky is preserved and interpreted via signage. The community of No Business was located by No Business Creek in Tennessee first settled in 1796, it had been abandoned by late 1960. Within it are reminders of the time when the area was subjected to logging and mining expansion. The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, commonly known as Big South Fork, preserves the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and its tributaries in northeastern Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky. Scott, Fentress, Pickett, and Morgan counties in Tennessee, and McCreary County, Kentucky, United States Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (the United States) Show map of the United States
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