Golf in Kingston

Kingston is the seat of Roane County, a small city at the confluence of the Emory, Clinch, and Tennessee rivers — a geographic position that made it a natural early settlement point and that now places it at the heart of a Watts Bar Lake recreation economy. The Kingston Steam Plant on the Tennessee River was the site of the largest coal ash spill in US history in 2008, an environmental event that reshaped the local conversation around industrial land use and environmental remediation. Roane County's terrain blends the Watts Bar Lake shoreline with the ridges and valleys of the Ridge and Valley province to the east and the Cumberland Plateau escarpment to the northwest. Golf in Kingston and Roane County takes advantage of the lake-and-ridge setting in a county that offers scenic variety unusual for its modest size.