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Cumberland and Plateau
Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.
Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.
The Cumberland Plateau region is drained to the west-northwest by the Tennessee River and its tributaries ; all other parts of the state are drained to the southwest.
** The Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Kentucky
Geographically and geologically, Virginia is divided into five regions from east to west: Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and Cumberland Plateau.
The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the south-west corner of Virginia, below the Allegheny Plateau.
Limey shale overlaid by limestone, Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee
In 1805, the Cherokee ceded their lands between the Cumberland and Duck rivers ( i. e. the Cumberland Plateau ) to Tennessee.
By that time, railroads were proving a better method of transportation, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was being built west from Baltimore to Cumberland, mostly along the Potomac River, then by a more direct route than the National Road across the Allegheny Plateau of West Virginia ( then Virginia ) to Wheeling.
The topography in the southern and eastern portions of the county is dominated by the dissected remnants of the Cumberland Plateau, such as Keel Mountain, Monte Sano Mountain and Green Mountain.
In 1840, White County became a destination for people from all over the country when Christopher Haufmann erected a large hotel on Bon Air Mountain, part of the Cumberland Plateau.
Sunset over White County, viewed from US-70 at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau
* Cumberland Plateau
It is an erosional remnant of the nearby Cumberland Plateau.
The land west of the Sequatchie Valley is known as the Cumberland Plateau and the land to the east of the Sequatchie Valley is known as Walden Ridge.
Scott County, a part of the Cumberland Plateau, includes the majority of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
Wonder Cave is located on the north side of Layne's Cove at the foot of the Cumberland Plateau.
It has a varied geography, extending from the southeast corner of the Nashville Basin over the Highland Rim and up onto the Cumberland Plateau, for a difference in elevation of about.
Valley of the Three Forks near Pall Mall, with the Cumberland Plateau dominating the horizon
Whitley County is located within the Cumberland Plateau of southeastern Kentucky, which is greatly overlapped by the broad Eastern Coal Field region of the state.
* Cumberland Plateau

Cumberland and Trail
1790 ), frontiersman and militia leader, who founded Oldtown and widened Nemacolin's Trail, which led west from Cumberland.
It is also located along side the famed National Road ( Cumberland Trail ). The present Courthouse is the fifth Courthouse to serve the people of Clay County,
These are the Cumberland Multi-Use Trail ( 14 miles ) and the Willis River Hiking Trail ( 16-miles ).
* Kingdom Come State Park ; Elevation: ; Size: ; Location: On the outskirts of the city of Cumberland, and is connected to the Little Shepherd Trail.
Teutopolis, City of the Teutons, or Germans, was established in 1839 and is located on the Cumberland Trail known as the Old National Road and now U. S. Route 40.
* The Great Allegheny Passage was a system of biking and hiking trails for the public that is planned to connect Cumberland, MD to Pittsburgh, PA. Atatrail. org reports that this trail has a very scenic route as it is a segment of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail which goes from Washington D. C. to Cumberland to Pittsburgh.
Later, as a Colonel in 1755, he was to accompany General Braddock on the old Indian Trail that ran through the valley on his way to Fort Cumberland.
Late in the year, started in 2002, Cumberland Town and Recreational Department has been putting together a " Spook Trail " in the woods of Diamond Hill Park on Diamond Hill Road called Haunted Hill.
A leg of the Cumberland Trail is accessible off Tennessee Avenue at the north end of LaFollette.
A section of the Cumberland Trail will, when completed, traverse Crab Orchard from north to south.
Signal Mountain is home to a number of outdoors attractions including the Cumberland Trail, Mabbitt Springs, and Signal Point, which is a U. S. National Park.
The Cooper family had been prominent in the Somerset area since brothers Malachi and Edward Cooper migrated from South Carolina along the Wilderness Trail and through the Cumberland Gap around 1790, shortly after Daniel Boone.
In 1748-1750 the Ohio Company hired Thomas Cresap who'd opened a trading fort and founded Oldtown, Maryland ( now part of Cumberland ) on the foot of the eastern climb up the Cumberland Narrows along what was soon to be called the Nemacolin Trail, one of only three mid-mountain-range crossings of the Appalachian Ridge and Valley system outside the Hudson-Great Lakes route, or southern Georgia-Mississippi-Western Tennessee plains route.
* Wilderness Road ( Wilderness Trail ) scouted by Daniel Boone from the Shenandoah Valley through the Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River
The Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail extends approximately 14 miles west from Ashland City on the old TC roadbed.
When completed, the Great Allegheny Passage will extend from Cumberland, Maryland to Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a branch ( Montour Trail ) to the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Officials of Cumberland, Maryland, tried to have the Maryland Madonna of the Trail monument moved to their city, which is at the beginning of the National Road, but Bethesda declined the request.
It has many trails for hiking, of which the most notable is the Cumberland Trail.
* Cumberland Valley Appalachian Trail Club
The trail connects to other area hiker / biker routes including: the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail, a paved rail trail that travels between Arlington and Purcellville, Virginia ( accessed from the Four Mile Run Trail, which ends at the Mount Vernon Trail near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and from the Custis Trail, which begins at the Mount Vernon Trail near Theodore Roosevelt Island ); the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, which travels from Georgetown in Washington, D. C., to Cumberland, Maryland ; the Capital Crescent Trail, which travels north for from Georgetown through Bethesda, Maryland to Silver Spring, Maryland ; and the Rock Creek Park Trail, which travels through Washington, D. C., and Montgomery County, Maryland and ends near Lake Needwood.

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