Pogue Creek is a 3,000-acre natural area located on the Cumberland Plateau. It is contiguous to parts of Pickett State Forest and very near Pickett State Park. This unique parcel represents the kind of special place the Tennessee Heritage Conservation Trust Fund will be seeking to protect through innovative partnership with private groups.

The Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) acquired Pogue Creek to protect it from development, then sold the tract to the State of Tennessee in 2006 when it was then designated a State Natural Area (SNA).

The bluff line is scenic where exposed reddish orange sandstone forms bands of sheer rock cliffs. In many places very scenic rockhouses and sandstone formations occur creating astonishing, picturesque rock structures. The rockhouses are habitat for rare species. Limited botanical inventories indicate that the diversity of Pogue Creek is significant with more than 300 plant species recorded by spring of 2006.

The natural area is named for Pogue Creek, which, along with its tributaries, formed and runs through the magnificent gorge that makes this area so special. Pogue Creek is a tributary of the Wolf River, which empties into the Cumberland River. The topography and plant communities are characteristic of the Cumberland Plateau with rich forests and scenic sandstone formations. The narrowest sections of the gorge are often dominated by eastern hemlock, magnolia species, and red maple with rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) and mountain laurel forming the shrub layer. As the gorge broadens, the forest becomes a mix of tulip poplar, beech, sycamore, yellow birch, maples, American basswood (Tilia americana), yellow buckeye, (Aesculus octandra), oaks and hickories.