Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center
1936 Liberty Hill Rd, Washburn, Tennessee
For more information call 865-497-2753 or email community@narrowridge.org.
Narrow Ridge invites you to join us for our last event of the year on Saturday, December 21 at our Strawbale Lodge for our Winter Solstice Celebration. The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year and has been a time of celebration since ancient times as people have looked forward to longer days or "the return of the light." We will gather at Narrow Ridge's Strawbale Lodge at 7:00 p.m. (Directions to the lodge below). Guests are invited to share a seasonal memory, thought, poem, song or work of art that expresses their own individual feelings about this special time of year. Contributions of finger foods for the snack table are appreciated but not required.
Directions to Narrow Ridge/Strawbale Lodge from the west
• From I-40 E, take the 640 exit and remain on 640 until you reach the Broadway exit (U.S. 441-N/ TN 33-N).
• Take the Broadway exit (do not take Old Broadway).
• Turn left on Broadway (north) and remain on Broadway for approximately 5 miles until 33-N and 441 split. Bear right at the split to remain on 33-N.
• Take State Route 33-N through Maynardville to Route 61-E (approximately 17 miles…61-E is about 1 to 1 ½ miles past the Food City on the Right).
• Turn Right on 61-E and travel ONLY ½ mile.
• Go straight when 61-E veers sharply 90 degrees to the right. Do not continue on 61-E. You will be on Walker’s Ford Rd. Do not follow 61 to Luttrell.
• Continue 3 and 4/10 miles until you reach the Nave Hill Baptist Church sign. Travel 100 feet past this sign to the next road on the Right which is Hogskin Rd. There is a yellowish house with a paved parking area in front of it across the street from the turn onto Hogskin Rd.
• Turn right onto Hogskin Rd. Continue 4 and 6/10 miles. (Be careful NOT to turn left onto Dotson Creek Rd. Bear Right at the “Y” of Hogskin and Dotson Creek and continue on Hogskin Rd.). You will reach a stop sign at a “T”-junction after 4 6/10 miles. There will be an old school house in the field to your left.
• Turn Left at stop sign onto Liberty Hill Rd.
• Pass old 2-room school house on left
• Cross the creek and take an immediate left onto Ed Muncey Hollow Road – road sign may be missing (if you get to the Narrow Ridge main entrance/Mac Smith Resource Center, you’ve gone too far. You may just want to go into the resource center and use the phone in the kitchen to call Strawbale Lodge so that we can come meet you and direct you to the lodge. The lodge is just a couple of minutes away from there.
• Take first right onto New Harvest Road (gravel road). Stay on New Harvest Rd. Do not take right hand turn onto blacktop driveway. (Follow “Lodge” signs from this point forward)
• Take 1st left (you will see a barn on the left) and follow it to its end to arrive at Strawbale Lodge.
• Do not use GPS or MapQuest. They WILL get you lost and most likely lead you out of cell phone range.