Chattahoochee Forest

The wooded ridges of the southern Blue Ridge give rise to the Chattahoochee and several other great rivers of the southeastern interior. The Chattahoochee begins near Jacks Knob, on slopes south of the Tennessee Valley Divide, and flows out of the mountains toward the southwest. Far downstream it joins the Flint to form the Apalachicola, whose waters reach the Gulf of Mexico. Narrow valleys and rocky streams break up the steep forested country around its headwaters.