South Cumberland State Park
Tennessee State Park · Monteagle, Tennessee
Not one park but eight scattered tracts across the southern Cumberland Plateau, held together by twelve trailheads and a visitor centre on US-41 at Monteagle. It holds the Great Stone Door, a natural cleft in the escarpment wide enough to walk down through; Foster Falls, a 60-foot drop with a climbing crag beside it; and the Fiery Gizzard, which national hiking press has repeatedly put on its lists of the best trails in the country. Savage Gulf was separated out as its own state park in 2023.
11745 US-41, Monteagle, Tennessee, 37356, United States
Open daily year round, free. Day-use areas generally 8 AM to sunset. The park is several separate units across the southern Cumberland Plateau with no single entrance — navigate to the specific trailhead. Visitor centre on Highway 41 keeps its own hours. Backcountry camping by free advance permit only.
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