Conservation Education at the Ocoee Whitewater Center
Our programs are designed to give students a hands-on outdoor classroom experience. Students will learn about wildlife habitats and the diverse ecosystems within a forest environment.

We invite you and your students to visit the Ocoee Whitewater Center and participate in programs planned to be exciting, educational, and memorable.

The Whitewater Center currently offers the following programs:

• Interpretive Hike on the Old Copper Road Trail
• Bear Paw Loop Nature Hike
• Walk Like a Cherokee
• Stream Exploration
• Insect National Forest
• Sally the Snag
• Trees are Terrific
• Lizard Landing
• Life in the Forest
• Ranger on the Rocks (Geology Program)
• Never eat soggy worms - orienteering

Historic Tellico Plains Ranger Station
Once a CCC Camp, this station was recently restored to its original "look" with a visitor center and exhibit area that interprets the CCC history.

Historic Donely Cabin
Civil War ear log house is now available to the public for overnight rentals. Guests hike ¼ mile into the forest. Fireplace and beds; no electricity or running water.

L&N Depot
To be featured on Restore America as an example of community involvement in a significant restoration effort. This 1906, two-story Victorian rail station is open for tours. An exhibit tells the story of this town built as a planned community by the L&N Railroad and traces its working class history. An active railyard is outside where visitors enjoy trains switching, changing crews and passing through.

Reliance Historic District
The only farming district in the area on the National Register.

Restored L&N Watchman’s House
Located in Reliance, built in 1891 and recently restored and turned into a Guest House. Originally, the railroad hired workers to stay at the house to watch that the wooden railroad trestles did not catch fire.

Englewood
Downtown area has been transformed with restorations for a textile museum and Company. Recently acquired mill owners house has been added to the restoration effort.

Copperhill
Steps in the town on a hill harken to the days when vehicles couldn’t make it up the steep hills. One-time company houses in Copperhill and Ducktown are still used.

Burra Burra Copper Mine
The only state-owned historic industrial site is now home to the Ducktown Basin Museum.

Old Copper Road
This trail is adjacent to the Ocoee Whitewater Center, a restoration of the last remaining section of the road once used by copper haulers, has a deck overlooking a beaver pond in addition to historic sites and lots of flora and fauna.

Historic Ocoee River Dams
Hwy 64 through the Ocoee gorge is home to three power houses and a flume line built early this century to provide power to the area, which are still used.

The Hotel
Located in Tellico Plains, this beautiful 1910 hotel has been restored with guestroom and a spacious front porch.

Ducktown Green-Gold Conservancy
A grammar school, located in a small mining town, owns a land conservancy that adjoins school grounds on which is one of the southernmost native cranberry bogs in the US. The school, itself, is a rather ornate building originally constructed as a college and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.