Knowing in advance that the area was seasonally dry, I nevertheless hiked up a small mountainside to Paine Creek Falls, located near the Laurel-Snow Trail, in Dayton, Tennessee. It’s off the beaten trail – in fact, I’ve never seen any hikers during my several visits to this remote spot – and, it turned out to be an interesting time, walking through an empty creek bed.

Regarding the approx. 4-foot wide hole in the rock…while this is an unusually large example for the region, these holes are common along waterways, where currents swirl smaller, denser rocks in a circular pattern, boring crevices into larger depressions.

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