66 state parks and historic sites in Tennessee
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- Bicentennial Capitol Mall State ParkTwenty acres of monuments, memorials and open lawn laid out below the State Capitol in downtown Nashville…
- Big Cypress Tree State ParkA 330-acre pocket of West Tennessee bottomland forest, crossed by a boardwalk trail built for birdwatching…
- Big Hill Pond State ParkClimb the 70-foot observation tower for the long view over 4,300 acres of timberland and hardwood bottomland…
- Big Ridge State Park3,687 acres of Appalachian foothills along Norris Lake, with hiking trails, historic sites and a swimming…
- Bledsoe Creek State Park169 acres on Old Hickory Lake, where the Observation Boardwalk and the Birdsong and Shoreline trails skirt a…
- Booker T. Washington State Park400 acres on the shore of Chickamauga Lake, with fishing, birding and trails through the woods above the…
- Burgess Falls State ParkThe Falling Water River drops over four waterfalls here, ending in the 103-foot Burgess Falls. Trails run the…
- Cedars of Lebanon State Park1,200 acres over a globally rare cedar glade ecosystem, threaded with unusual rock formations. Trails wind…
- Cherokee Trail of Tears State ParkA place of remembrance at the confluence of the Hiwassee and Tennessee rivers in Meigs County, beside the…
- Chickasaw State Park1,435 acres of hardwood forest and quiet lakes in West Tennessee, with stables, a swimming beach and boat…
- Cordell Hull Birthplace State ParkThe preserved log cabin where Cordell Hull — a sharecropper's son who became Secretary of State and a Nobel…
- Cove Lake State ParkTwo hundred acres of lake at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains, flat enough for a canoe and open for…
- Cumberland Mountain State ParkThe CCC's great stone bridge still spans Byrd Lake, the centrepiece of 1,720 acres on the Cumberland Plateau…
- Cumberland Trail State ParkTennessee's only linear state park: a footpath of more than 300 miles running the Cumberland Plateau across…
- Cummins Falls State ParkThe 75-foot Cummins Falls plunges into a natural pool on the Blackburn Fork State Scenic River, inside 457…
- David Crockett Birthplace State Park105 acres on the Nolichucky River at Limestone, marking where David Crockett was born, with a replica cabin…
- David Crockett State Park1,400 acres at Lawrenceburg built around the legacy of the frontiersman it is named for, with a museum and…
- Devil's Backbone State ParkMore than 1,500 acres of Western Highland Rim forest in Lewis County, reached straight off the Natchez Trace…
- Dunbar Cave State ParkDunbar Cave holds prehistoric Native American cave art and is open only on guided tours. The surrounding 140…
- Edgar Evins State Park6,338 acres of wooded shoreline on Center Hill Lake, with an observation tower for the long view and trails…
- Fall Creek Falls State ParkNearly 29,800 acres of Cumberland Plateau gorge, with Fall Creek Falls — among the tallest waterfalls in the…
- Fiery Gizzard State Park7,811 acres across Grundy and Marion counties, holding some of the region's best hiking and backcountry…
- Fort Pillow State Park1,642 acres on the Chickasaw Bluffs high above the Mississippi, around a restored Civil War fortification. A…
- Frozen Head State ParkMore than 24,000 acres of Cumberland Mountain wilderness under a 3,324-foot peak that ices over in winter…
- Harpeth River State Park650 acres strung along the meandering Harpeth River outside Nashville, in separate access areas rather than…
- Harrison Bay State Park1,200 acres of forest and shoreline on Chickamauga Lake, with a marina, a campground and a golf course. The…
- Head of the Crow State Park4,258 acres of Franklin County karst at the head of Crow Creek, full of sinkholes, caves and hardwood forest…
- Henry Horton State Park1,552 acres along the biologically rich Duck River at Chapel Hill, with paddling, trails and the historic…
- Hiwassee Scenic River State ParkTwenty-three miles of the Hiwassee, designated in 1968 as the first river in Tennessee's State Scenic River…
- Indian Mountain State Park203 acres of reclaimed land in a Cumberland Mountain valley, now two lakes ringed by walking trails. A disc…
- Long Hunter State Park2,670 acres along Percy Priest Lake close to Nashville, with trails, a swimming beach and picnic areas…
- Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park12,539 acres on the Chickasaw Bluffs above the Mississippi, just north of Memphis. Poplar Tree Lake, cabins…
- Middle Fork Bottoms State Park861 acres of former farmland turned back into native grassland and wetland. Walking trails and Middle Fork…
- Montgomery Bell State Park3,850 acres of rolling hills, forest and quiet lakes at Burns, with miles of trail and the shore of Lake…
- Mousetail Landing State Park1,867 acres above the Tennessee River, with scenic trails, camping and river access. A quiet stretch of water…
- Natchez Trace State Park48,000 acres of West Tennessee woodland around three lakes. A lodge, cabins, campgrounds, stables and a…
- Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park2,700 acres along the western shore of Kentucky Lake, with scenic trails and campsites near the water. The…
- Norris Dam State Park4,018 acres of Norris Lake shoreline between the Cumberland and Appalachian ranges, where the Civilian…
- North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Park6,000 acres of gorge cut into Walden's Ridge just north of Chattanooga, walled by sandstone bluffs. The trail…
- Ocoee River State ParkThe Ocoee and its internationally known whitewater, under state park management since 1984. In 2025 the river…
- Panther Creek State Park1,444 acres above Cherokee Lake in the Ridge and Valley country, with more than 28 miles of hiking and biking…
- Paris Landing State Park1,126 acres on Kentucky Lake, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, built around boating and…
- Pickett CCC Memorial State Park922 acres of natural bridges and rock shelters on the Cumberland Plateau, dark enough to hold a Dark Sky…
- Pickwick Landing State Park1,407 acres on Pickwick Lake at Counce, with a lodge, cabins, a campground and a golf course. An aviary on…
- Port Royal State ParkThirty acres on the site of Port Royal, a river town founded in 1797 and long since gone. The restored 1859…
- Radnor Lake State Park1,389 acres of protected Class II Natural Area inside Nashville, managed for wildlife ahead of recreation…
- Reelfoot Lake State ParkA lake wrung out of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812, and the only large natural lake in…
- Roan Mountain State Park2,156 acres of Appalachian cove forest at the foot of the Roan massif, on the Doe River. Cabins and a…
- Rock Island State ParkWhere the Caney Fork, Collins and Rocky rivers meet at the head of Center Hill Lake, over 2,000 acres of…
- Rocky Fork State ParkAbout 2,200 acres of Blue Ridge backcountry around an intact mountain watershed. Trails climb past cascades…
- Savage Gulf State ParkAbout 19,000 acres of canyon cut into the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau, walled by sheer sandstone…
- Scott's Gulf Wilderness State Park9,566 acres of gorge country where waterfalls drop through ancient rock and overlooks open above them…
- Seven Islands State Birding Park416 acres of grassland, wetland and forest on a bend of the French Broad River, managed first of all for…
- Standing Stone State ParkJust under a thousand acres at Hilham, reforested from worn-out farmland into ridge and hollow around Kelly…
- T.O. Fuller State Park1,600 acres of woodland inside the city of Memphis, on the Chickasaw Bluffs. Invigorating trails, a wildlife…
- Tims Ford State Park3,546 acres on Tims Ford Reservoir below the Cumberland Plateau, on one of the Southeast's better-known bass…
- Warriors' Path State ParkJust over a thousand acres on Fort Patrick Henry Lake, with a marina, a golf course and a mountain bike trail…
Historic sites & museums 9
- Cardwell Mountain State Archaeological Park534 acres in Warren County preserving five millennia of human history, on the mountain above Cumberland…
- Fort Loudoun State Historic ParkAn 18th-century British fort rebuilt on its own ground above Tellico Lake, inside 853 acres. Trails, picnic…
- Fort Southwest Point State Historic ParkA federal frontier fort of 1797 rebuilt on its original foundations where the Tennessee and Clinch rivers…
- Johnsonville State Historic Park2,655 acres on the Tennessee River around the remains of a Civil War supply depot and the town that served…
- Old Stone Fort State Archaeological ParkAn ancient earthwork enclosure raised where the Duck and Little Duck rivers meet, inside 782 acres of gorge…
- Pinson Mounds State Archaeological ParkAt least 17 mounds across more than 1,600 acres, raised by the Indigenous Mound Culture of the mid-South…
- Red Clay State Historic Park263 acres where the Cherokee Nation held its last councils before the Trail of Tears. Replica structures, the…
- Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park347 acres in the Wolf River valley preserving the farm and gristmill of Alvin C. York, among the most…
- Sycamore Shoals State Historic ParkSeventy-six acres around a reconstructed fort and the historic homes near it. Small in area, but the ground…
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