Beaver Creek Water Trail

Beaver Creek spans much of Knox County, beginning as a spring in the Gibbs community and flowing approximately 44 miles before joining the Clinch River. Along the way, its watershed winds through five communities.

The grassroots Beaver Creek Kayak Club has led the effort of making Beaver Creek the perfect place to paddle in our community. In collaboration with Knox County the two have undertaken the giant task of cleaning and clearing the creek of debris so that it a more navigable and healthy creek.

Legacy Parks supports the efforts by acquiring creekside property for parks and creek access and with funding and installing adaptive docks at strategic locations along Beaver Creek.

To date, Legacy Parks has built two parks along the creek – Roy Arthur Stormwater Park and Collier Preserve and installed two adaptive boat launches – Aubrey’s Launch at Powell High School Landing and Karns Landing.

Plans for two additional accessible docks and micro parks are underway.