Visit trails and interesting areas of Tennessee State Parks, Wildlife Refuges and Management Areas, Historic Sites, and more.
This state park was originally a state natural area but was changed to a state park in September 2024. In fact, if you research the park, much of the information still calls it a state natural area.
Fall Creek Falls is a massive state park – 29,800 acres! There is a golf course, a visitors center, nature center, cabins, a pool, a lake, camping, a scenic driving route, and a lodge with a restaurant. Once you enter the park, the first thing to do is find the visitors center so you can get a map to navigate around the park.
We packed up our camper and the dogs and traveled to Rock Island State Park, located in Rock Island, Tennessee. The following article is longer than we typically post, because we went on three different hikes over the period of four days.
This is a massive state park with four entrances! Savage Gulf park is in two Tennessee counties and is 19,000 acres with 60 miles of trails. We hiked at the East Trailhead which is located in Palmer. Savage Gulf was originally a state scientific natural area that was managed by South Cumberland State Park.
Just an hour or so west of Chattanooga is South Cumberland State Park. This park is very spread out across three different counties – but we started in Monteagle, where the Visitor’s Center is located.
