Fall Creek Falls State Park

Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park is one of the most scenic and spectacular recreation areas in America. Its waterfalls, cascades, sparkling streams, gorges, timberland and an unmatched variety of recreation facilities and activities have made it one of the most popular parks in the Southeast. Fall Creek Falls is one of the highest waterfalls east of the Rocky Mountains, plunging 256 feet into a shaded pool at the base of its gorge. The park's other falls, (Piney, Cane Creek and Cane Creek Cascades), though smaller, are just as impressive.

The park offers a wide variety of recreational activities such as cave tours, paddle boat and potoon boat tours, group hiking, softball, horseshoes, various nature studies, and family games. You can also experience the 18-hole golf course, horseback riding, the fishing lake where you can rent paddle boats and canoes, the nature center, and of course, miles and miles of wonderful hiking trails. Throughout various times during the year, the park also hosts live mountain music and various festivals. And much, much more.

Fall Creek Falls State Park is located in central Tennessee between Pikeville and Spencer.

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• 2008 Special Events
• Saturday Evenings, May - September - Live Mountain Music at the Park's Amphitheatre
• Other Local Area Events

• In 1935, the National Park Service proposed the creation of Fall Creek Falls State Park situated in both Van Buren and Bledsoe Counties. The original plans were to include the entire Cane Creek Gulf watershed, but only 15,777 acres of land were purchased from local farmers centering on the upper portion of the Cane Creek and Fall Creek watersheds. Workers from the Works Progress Administration began construction of the park in 1936, and by 1944 the management of the park was turned over to the fledgling Tennessee Department of Conservation. In the early stages of the park, development was kept to a minimum. The rustic park was a destination for hikers, hunters, swimmers, and other nature lovers. Camping was in an open field; groups could also stay in Youth Camp One, which was built around 1938.
  
  
• An instrumental person in the development of Fall Creek Falls as a state park was James Taft, a teacher, Boy Scout leader, and preacher, who lived in the area. Taft quickly recognized the value of the area as a park and began his lobbying efforts to see it set aside for the public. Through his passionate insistence about the possibilities for this land, James Taft helped get the area set aside as a state park.
• The park now covers 22,000 acres of land.
• The park was used as one of the primary filming locations for the Disney live action movie, The Jungle Book.