The High Knob area of Stone Mountain forms one of the greatest natural areas in the eastern United States. Today its calcareous heart has been breached by massive erosion to expose an ecologically renowned  landscape which stretches from the Powell Valley area of Wise County, southwest across the Powell River Valley of Lee County to the Norris Lake of Tennessee. Drainage from High Knob has also formed  complex conduit systems which led to formation of the magnificent Natural Tunnel.

For the visitor, it is a place that will WOW you! Come and bring your camera!