Window Cliffs State Natural Area

[2] The Window Cliffs is the name of a prominent group of natural bridges in a narrow 200-foot-tall (61 m) ridge in the neck of a meander of Cane Creek.

With a thickness of 50 to 75 m (164 to 246 ft) It consists of silicastone, with smaller amounts of calcareous siltstone and argillaceous limestone bands and nodules of dense chert.

[3] The best quality forest communities in the natural area consist of oak and hickory uplands with American beech and eastern hemlock in the coves.

The address is 8400 Old Cane Creek Road Baxter, Tennessee 36°03′10″N 85°37′13″W / 36.052833°N 85.620315°W / 36.052833; -85.620315 (Parking)[6] The trail from the trailhead to the Window Cliffs is 2.7 miles (4.3 km) each way.

[2] In the early 19th century, the French Naturalist, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, visited the area and named it "Cane Creek Bluff.

[7] It was featured in the story "Jack and the Mountain Pink" by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell in Harper's Weekly, Jan. 29, 1881, 75-77 Travel Book[8] The Land Trust for Tennessee purchased this natural area from different private landowners in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

A View of the Window Cliffs from the Access Trail