Red Clay State Park is AMAZING, let me get that out of the way. The park itself is about 250 acres. The museum alone is such a fitting...

This park was originally the designated Shelby County Negro State Park. It opened in 1938 as the second state park in the nation for...

Harrison Bay State Park is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and claims about 40 miles of the shore of Chickamauga Lake. When it began to be...

Booker T. Washington is a 353 acre park in Chattanooga. It was built by African American troops of the CCC and was originally built to be...

Fall Creek Falls is the most visited state park in Tennessee. It’s HUGE, at almost 30,000 acres. Fall Creek Falls is 256 feet tall and...

Cordell Hull was the Secretary of State under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and helped to create the United Nations and received a...

Sargent Alvin C York lived in Pall Mall, Tennessee for his whole life. He was actually the fourth generation of his family in this area....

Paris Landing State Park is in Buchanan, Tennessee. It's a smaller state park at 841 acres. This sits on Kentucky Lake, which is home to...

There was a levee built in 1835 that led to the creation of Big Hill Pond, a 35 acre pond. The state park surrounding the land is over...

Pickwick Landing State Park is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes from my home in Nashville, and is located in Counce, Tennessee. It...

Chickasaw State Park is approximately two hours and fifteen minutes from Nashville. This entire area was once the hunting ground of the...

Reelfoot Lake State Park is 3 hours from Nashville, and if that's making you pause- DO NOT PAUSE. GO. It's that amazing. It's the closest...

Big Cypress Tree State Park is a small park, at 300 acres, in Greenfield, Tennessee. It's 2 and a half hours from Nashville. Frankly, if...

Tims Ford was the name of a pioneer river crossing in this area. Eventually, this lake became known as Tims Ford Lake- and is a 10K acre...

In Hilham, Tennessee, is Standing Stone State Forest (11K acres)- something I did not know existed. And in the middle of the forest is...

Cumberland Mountain State Park is a state park that encompasses and surrounds the man-made Byrd Lake. The area was undeveloped until a...

Rock Island State Park is in Rock Island, Tennessee, approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes from my home in Bellevue. The property became a...

Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park is located at 1825 Pilot Knob Road in Eva, Tennessee. It's about an hour and thirty five minutes from...

Whitsett Park has 62 acres, and originally opened when the property was destroyed during the 2010 flood. Prior to the flood, this land...

Mildred Shute was a woman who worked hard for her neighborhood. She was a community organizer, who helped lead the Democratic Women’s...