The Kimberling Creek Cluster is a region in the Jefferson National Forest recognized by The Wilderness Society for its diversity of habitats extending along parts of Brushy and Hogback Mountains.

[1][2] The Kimberling Creek Cluster contains wild areas that are worthy of protection from logging and road construction.

Roads and trails in the cluster are shown on National Geographic Map 787 (Blacksburg, New River Valley).

The land form, climate, soils and geology of the Appalachian highlands, as well as its evolutionary history, have created one of the most diverse collection of plants and animals in the deciduous forests of the temperate world.

The province marks the eastern boundary in the Paleozoic era of an older land surface on the east.

The brothers William B. and Henry D. Rogers showed, in 1847, that the ridge and valley system in the western part of the Appalachians was caused by erosion of large anticlines and synclines.

[10] Other clusters of the Wilderness Society's "Mountain Treasures" in the Jefferson National Forest (north to south):