Thousands of wild herbs and flowers bloom on Sassafras Ridge, starting in early spring and continuing until late into the fall. There are about thirty species of deciduous trees, making fall spectacularly beautiful with shades of peach, orange, gold, crimson, and green, painting the hillsides and valleys. Ginseng, yellow root, ginkgo, golden seal and hundreds of other helpful, healing herbs grow everywhere.

Harriet Tubman Nature Reserve, an area containing hundreds of flowers, plants, wild herbs and roaring streams, was set aside by the developers for the entire community. A stroll down Harriet Tubman Trail– named in honor of our great freedom fighter and leader of the Underground Railroad– is a must for all visitors to Sassafras Ridge. In the 1800’s, Africans escaped from slavery in Georgia and Alabama and lived in the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains. Many continued on the Underground Railroad to freedom in the North, some stayed and lived in the mountains with the Cherokee Indians, and some were forced to walk to Oklahoma with the Cherokee during the infamous Trail of Tears.