Peach Orchard

The one TWRA-owned ramp on the reach, reached from SR 61 by Hillvale Road and Peach Orchard Road rather than from the dam side. A gravel lot, a 24-hour flag, and the same river TVA's schedule sets upstream.

THE PEACH ORCHARD CORRIDOR Schematic river line · TWRA GIS coordinates (2008 records)

Clinch River Tailwater Peach Orchard corridor: the TWRA Peach Orchard ramp on a schematic river line, with the dam-reach sites shown as reference dots where they fall inside the frame

Three things to get right

What you hear	What TWRA and TVA actually say
“It's another TVA ramp.”	TWRA's, and the only one. Every other site on the reach is TVA, county or private in TWRA's layer. Peach Orchard reads owner TWRA, manager TWRA, concrete ramp, one lane, launchable “Up to 17 ft.”
“The record describes today's ramp.”	It is a 2008 snapshot. Collected 03-Dec-08: road and parking “Gravel”, parking over 25, trailer spaces 5–10, fee 0, no restroom, 24-hour-access flag set. Verify on the ground.
“The rise reaches here so many minutes after the dam.”	No page we read gives a travel time from the dam to this ramp, or the weir's distance below the dam. Plan from TVA's schedule, written in generators, not from a guess. Status pending.

TWRA's own access record, verbatim

Peach Orchard directions field: “I-75 to SR 61 to Hillvale Raod to Peach Orchard Road” (sic). Water body “Clinch River”; county Anderson; region 4; months closed 0. Nearest other sites by coordinate: Miller Island Access upstream (TVA ramp, River Rd off US 441) and the Hwy 61 Bridge ramp downstream at Clinton, each on its own card.

Generation sets this river

TVA: “Water release schedules shift with weather and power demand. Large amounts of water can be released at any time.” “Even a few inches of fast-moving water can knock you off your feet.” TWRA: “Use caution below dams. Call TVA at 1-800-238-2264 to check dam discharge and generation schedules.” On 17 Oct 2026 TVA's Norris page read 20 cfs at 8 a.m. and 3,322 cfs at noon.

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CLINCH RIVER TAILWATER Access & limits

Peach Orchard access site (TWRA GIS, read 17 Oct 2026; 2008 record)

Site	Launch	Notes
Peach Orchard 36.19088, −84.11958 · TWRA	Concrete, 1 lane, to 17 ft	Gravel road and lot, over 25 spaces, trailer spaces 5–10, fee 0, no restroom, no handicap parking flag, motorized flag set, 24-hour-access flag set. Collected 03-Dec-08.
Upstream, for reference	—	Miller Island Access (TVA ramp, 36.20424, −84.08831) and the Weir Dam landing: card 23-1.
Downstream, for reference	—	Hwy 61 Bridge (county ramp, 36.12355, −84.11375), the regulation's downstream limit: card 23-3.

Trout: this water's own rule (TWRA, read 17 Oct 2026)

Water	Daily	Size
Clinch River, Norris Dam to Hwy. 61 bridge, incl. tributaries — all trout	7	14–20 in PLR; only 1 over 20 in
Statewide default (for comparison)	7 any combination	None; 2 lake trout max
Clear Creek, Hwy. 441 up to the second dam	Closed Nov. 1–Mar. 31 to all fishing; bait harvest and bait-harvest gear prohibited

PLR is TWRA's abbreviation for protected length range: a trout inside the range goes back (our gloss; the guide PDF's definition was not readable). No bait or tackle restriction is listed for the Clinch River on TWRA's trout regulations page. Species stocked: brook, brown, rainbow, March through August (TWRA).

Everything else — black bass, walleye and the rest fall under Tennessee's statewide table in the 2026–27 guide, which we could not read this run: status pending. A Tennessee licence with trout privilege is required; no price is printed here.

Flow: TVA Norris Lake Levels page (observed headwater, tailwater, outflow; the release schedule in generators; next-day schedule usually by 6 p.m.) or 1-800-238-2264. No live USGS gauge on the reach: 03533000's daily record ends 1993. Norris Dam: no published coordinate; placed by description on the map.

Sources: TVA (Norris Lake Levels, Norris hydroelectric and Hazardous Waters pages), TWRA (Tennessee Statewide Trout Regulations page; Boating & Fishing Access Sites GIS layer, read 17 Oct 2026; tailwater trout page), USGS NWIS 03533000.
Conditions change. Check TVA's schedule or call 1-800-238-2264 before you go. Built October 2026.

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