South Cumberland State Park

South Cumberland State Park is a major protected landscape on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, established in 1978 and spread across scattered sections in the state’s middle and southeast. Known for rugged escarpments, deep ravines, streams, waterfalls, and the Fiery Gizzard Trail, it has become one of Tennessee’s most distinctive plateau park systems. Its lands have changed through recent divisions that reduced its acreage, but it still preserves dramatic natural areas alongside traces of the region’s industrial past. At places such as Grundy Lakes, remains of coal mining, coke production, and a convict labor stockade survive within a landscape of forested gorges, caves, and natural bridges.

Monteagle, Tennessee · United States