Whether you love golfing, tennis, swimming, riding horseback, playing pickleball, or hiking mountain trails, there's always a fun way to remain active here in Bent Tree. Apart from the sporting activities, there are plenty of other things to do: Bridge, karaoke, book clubs, Bible study groups, etc and many, many more.

Hundreds of years before a network of highways and interstates crisscrossed the country, a system of trails connected the Cherokee to Indians throughout the nation.

Marking those trails were oddities that hikers may still come across on their treks in the woods—trees whose trunks run low along the ground before shooting upward again. Researchers believe the Cherokee shaped the trees to form a system of signs pointing to things that hunters, gatherers and warriors needed on journeys that could entail hundreds of miles.  Read more HERE.

These bent trail trees are where Bent Tree gets its name!