Natchez Trace Parkway: Day 3 - Franklin to The Gordon House

woke up to snow in Nashville

1-24-15:  After a visit to a wonderful little yarn shop in Breckenridge, we spent the night in the Nashville area and woke up to snow on the ground! Yay!!

approaching the Hwy 96 bridge

After driving through historic Franklin (in which I need to spend a little more time), we headed back to the Northern Terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway and started our trip back south.

last night we drove on the bridge to the end of the Trace

today we are going under it

Rocky ready to cut loose in the snow

the bridge spans Birdsong Hollow

for perspective, that's Rocky and me at the base

you can see a car going under it on 96

one of the most photographed places on the Trace

picturesque from every angle

the double arch bridge won the 1995 Presidential Award for design excellence

wonderful stop

unfortunately, it's a common jumping point for troubled people

across the road from the bridge

snow dog

 so I haven't seen snow a lot in my life, so lots of pix here

pretty little stream cutting through the snow

ok, more snow

but the roads were just fine

pretty!

gotta love a split rail NPS fence covered in snow

almost finished with now pix

and here we go, last one

Water Valley Overlook

Gordon House is one of the few remaining buildings on the Trace

In the early 1800's Gordon rec'd permission from Chickasaw Chief George Colbert to operate a stand and ferry across the Duck River at this location

Gordon's wife, Dorthea, supervised construction of the house in 1817-18

deceased beaver on the way to the old ferry site

who hatch trodden before us this snowy morning?

hubs taking pix of the clearwater stream

and off we go to the old ferry site

Rocky is leading me

and, thankfully, pulling me a little

beautiful path to the site

arrived Gordon's ferry site on Duck River

#davidlovesselfies

pretty good size river

Gordon house from the ferry trail

heading back to the truck

but not without making a snowman first for the grandsons

perspective

Baker Bluff Overlook

overlooking the beautiful Duck River

one of the prettiest spots on the Trace

photographer at work

my man

could've stayed here a couple of hours