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Paris Landing State Park is an 841-acre (3.4 km 2) state park located on the western bank of Kentucky Lake in Buchanan, Henry County, Tennessee. [ 1] The park is located inland from the original site of Paris Landing which served steamboat traffic on the Tennessee River. The site is now under the waters of Kentucky Lake, which was created by ...
Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park is a state park in Van Buren and Bledsoe counties, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The over 30,638-acre (123.99 km 2) [ 1] park is centered on the upper Cane Creek Gorge, an area known for its unique geological formations and scenic waterfalls. The park's namesake is the 256-foot (78 m) Fall Creek Falls, the ...
The park was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1934 and 1942 on about 12,000 acres (49 km 2) of land donated to the State of Tennessee in 1933 by the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company. CCC crews built hiking trails, a recreation lodge, a ranger station, five rustic cabins, and a 12-acre (4.9 ha) lake known as Arch Lake.
Mousetail Landing State Park is a 1,247-acre (5.05 km 2) state park located on the eastern bank of the Tennessee River in Perry County, Tennessee near Linden. The park was established in 1979, making it one of the more recent additions to the Tennessee State Parks system. [ 1] The name is thought to have been derived from an event during the ...
86002794. Added to NRHP. 1986. Standing Stone State Park is a state park in Overton County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The park consists of 855 acres (3.46 km 2) along the shoreline of the man-made 69-acre (0.28 km 2) Standing Stone Lake. The 11,000-acre (45 km 2) Standing Stone State Forest surrounds the park. [1]
In addition to Tennessee's many state parks, the state also offers 373 cabins, over 80 waterfalls, 36 campgrounds and six lodges, making the Volunteer State the perfect summer getaway for families ...
Frozen Head State Park consists of approximately 24,000 acres (97 km 2 ), all but 330 acres (1.3 km 2) of which is classified as a state natural area. The terrain varies between 1,300 ft (400 m) to over 3,000 ft (910 m) with 14 peaks at or over 3,000 feet (910 m). Frozen Head, the park's namesake, is the highest peak at 3,324 feet (1,013 m).
Tennessee has 58 designated state parks, operated by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The largest park, Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail, is made up of land along the Cumberland Trail, stretching from Cumberland Gap at the Virginia state line to Prentice Cooper State Forest in Marion County, just northwest of Chattanooga. [1]