Coker Creek Welcome Center

The Welcome Center provides area information for visitors and makes all feel welcome. Coker Creek is just two miles from the North Carolina Line. Gold was discovered here long before the Wild West. Gold panning is still common.

The Welcome Center provides area information for visitors and makes all feel welcome. In addition to the Community Post Office and Welcome Center, the Coker Creek Heritage Group sponsors workshops, a heritage festival, a clean-up program, the Unicoi Turnpike Trail, and the Coker Creek Library.

If you're up for a hike, visit nearby Coker Creek Falls! To get there from Tellico Plains, drive South on Hwy 68 12.6 miles past Hardees to Coker Creek. Turn right on County Road 628 just past the Ironsburg Methodist Church. Go .8 miles to the Ironsburg Cemetery. Stay to the left on County Road 626. Bear right at the first intersection onto Duckett Ridge Road. Go 3.9 miles on Duckett Ridge. Bear to the left at the next Y and go 1.6 miles to the parking area and the trailhead. There is a picnic area but no facilities at the trailhead.This hike (Trail 183) follows the creek most of the way and is about 3 miles. It ends at the John Muir/Coker Creek parking area where you can hike the John Muir (Trail 152). The trail offers lovely views of the river gorge and the constant sound of water in the creek. Coker Creek Falls is a seven stair step falls of ledges and cascades which run all the way across the creek.
--source Monroe County Tourism