Multiply and divide describes the new-math of the Tennessee State Parks on the South Cumberland Plateau, currently recognized as Fiery Gizzard, Head of the Crow, and Savage Gulf. Formerly, these three parks were one park, South Cumberland State Park, noncontiguous natural areas covering more than 30,000 acres. Read more. Leslie Lytle – Sewanee Mountain Messenger […]
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Momentum is building behind a proposed trail connector that would link Swinging Bridge Park to Pocket Wilderness in Rhea County. City, county, state and community leaders gathered recently to begin mapping out the project. Read more. News Channel 9 Plus: Read Rhea Leaders Unite to Advance Vision for Swinging Bridge Park–Pocket Wilderness Trail Connector at
In the Tennessee River Gorge Trust’s Summer 2026 issue of Field Notes from the Gorge, topics include: Read the newsletter. Image: TN River Gorge Trust
Skullcaps, Salamanders, Camping and Bike Trails in the Tennessee River Gorge Read More »
Approximately 1,300 acres in Hamilton and Rhea counties will be transferred to the State of Tennessee to create a new state park, located near Graysville. With the addition of existing state-owned parcels, the future park’s total area will be approximately 2500 acres. The site borders McDonald Farm in Hamilton County and connects to the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail State Park. Tennessee State Parks
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Spotlight: Southeast Alabama — which has more than 130,000 miles of rivers and streams — is home to more species of turtles, freshwater fish, snails, crayfish, and freshwater mussels than any other state in the country. It’s an unexpected epicenter of endangered species, too — those that are at risk of extinction and listed under
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Chris Wood, Program Director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Director of eBird, has been selected as the keynote speaker for the 2026 Tennessee Biodiversity Summit. Over the past two decades, Chris has helped build eBird into one of the world’s largest biodiversity data resources, with more
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Near Tennessee’s Fiery Gizzard State Park, Head of the Crow State Park offers a quieter but equally compelling landscape. Here, the headwaters of Crow Creek emerge from a limestone plateau of caves, springs, forested ridges, and valleys. The park brings together treasured State Natural Areas, including Natural Bridge, Sherwood Forest, the Carter tract, and Hawkins Cove, long-standing
Tennessee State Parks recently dedicated the new Fort Southwest Point State Historic Park during a ceremony with state and local leaders, preserving the history of a lesser-known, but important story from Tennessee’s earliest days. Located in Roane County along Watts Bar Lake, the park at Fort Southwest Point was most recently operated by the City
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The City of Chattanooga Department of Parks and Outdoors recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of Phase One infrastructure improvements at Stringer’s Ridge Preserve. Supported by a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Project Diabetes initiative, the project features a newly paved path designed to drastically improve visitor safety and park
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The Board of Trustees of the Alabama Forever Wild Land Trust will hold its third quarterly meeting of 2026 on Thursday, August 6, in the Goldenrod Room at the Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge, 1155 Lodge Dr., in Guntersville, Alabama. At this meeting, updates on Forever Wild program activities and tract assessments will be presented. The
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