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HELP THE PARKS YOU LOVE!
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A new way you can share your love for the Parks!
Make a donation in someone's honor.
New this year, the Friends are offering these attractive gift cards, allowing you to make a donation to the Friends in the name of a family member, friend or colleague. Give the people you know who love Nature the gift of Nature this holiday season! A set of five "in-your-honor" cards are just $50, and include matching envelopes. You can order your cards here. Cards will be mailed to you. Donations to the Friends may be tax-deductible, but the awareness and knowledge these honoraria will spread to others is priceless!
Make a donation in someone's honor.
New this year, the Friends are offering these attractive gift cards, allowing you to make a donation to the Friends in the name of a family member, friend or colleague. Give the people you know who love Nature the gift of Nature this holiday season! A set of five "in-your-honor" cards are just $50, and include matching envelopes. You can order your cards here. Cards will be mailed to you. Donations to the Friends may be tax-deductible, but the awareness and knowledge these honoraria will spread to others is priceless!
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Staircase structure moving toward completion on the Greeter Falls trailBelow, photos from January 20 & 21 Trails Team work on the upper landing of the new staircase. Volunteers are always welcome! Email Trails Chair John Collins if interested.
View plans for the staircase here. More photos on the Trails Team's Progress Report page. |
Volunteers needed to finish new Campground at Fiery Gizzard mid-point
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By popular demand, a new mid-point campground is being constructed along the Fiery Gizzard Trail. Ranger Ryan Harris is working with local Scouts and other volunteers to create the new campground, which SCSP managers hope to have open by sometime in March, 2023!
Volunteers are needed! Check the South Cumberland Volunteer Page for work dates and times. Meet Ranger Harris at Park Headquarters (Visitor Center) in Monteagle. Work usually runs until about 2 or 3 pm. This will be the first time in many years there has been a campground at the mid-point of the 12-mile Fiery Gizzard Trail. A previous campsite at Raven Point was on private land and had to be closed as a result. The new campground will be on Park property, and campground sites will be available for reservation on SCSP's website as soon as the site is ready for use. |
Join our Trails Team!
The FSC Trails Team assists Park Managers and staff with assessment, design, construction, maintenance and/or rerouting of nearly 100 miles of world-class trails and trail structures in South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks. The Trails Team also assists the parks with SCSP wayfinding (directional) signage and mile marking. The Trails Team welcomes all volunteers, and has opportunities for adults of any age and physical ability! Learn more by visiting the Trails Team page.
See what our Trails Team has been up to:
Email FSC Trails Team Chair John Collins to find out how you can help!
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The Trail Friends offer park visitors a cheery welcome and useful information about the parks, the natural surroundings, and the specifics of the trails. Trail Friends staff five of the busiest trailheads in the parks, and also walk these trails, answering questions and providing assistance as they go. The Trail Friends team is always looking for enthusiastic new members! Learn more by visiting our Trail Friends Initiative page.
Here's a video about all the great trails, and things to see and do in South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks:
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Please join us in saying Thank You
to all of our Sponsoring Partners!
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TRAILS & TRILLIUMS SPONSORING PARTNER
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GOLDENROD GALA SPONSORING PARTNER
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FRIENDS OF SOUTH CUMBERLAND SPONSORING PARTNERS
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Mr. Doug Ferris
& Dot Neale Mr. John Canale |
South Cumberland celebrates 45 years!
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On July 1, 1978, South Cumberland State Park was dedicated with less than 10,000 acres; today, that has grown to more than 31,000 acres of protected wilderness, now divided into two parks, South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks. Today, these two parks are visited by nearly 650,000 people each year, and thanks to your support of the Friends, are as wild and spectacular as ever, with new trails and new ways to enjoy the parks now available through the hard work of our Friends volunteers! Please take a moment to support the work of the Friends of South Cumberland State Parks!
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QUICK LINKS
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The Friends are now on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter!
Follow and friend us! Share your adventures in the Park on these Friends of South Cumberland pages: 
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Learn about the newest areas of the Parks
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South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks protect over 31,000 acres of pristine Tennessee wilderness. Click on any of these links to learn more about recent land areas that have been protected and added to the parks, and what work is underway to make these areas accessible to the public: |
Our Mission:
To aid and assist the managers and staffs of South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks in meeting their objectives, and to inform, educate, engage, and inspire our members and the public to protect, conserve, and enjoy all the resources of the parks.
Why Should You Be a Friends Member?
South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks now protect over 31,000 acres of pristine Tennessee wilderness. Although this is great news, more land, and more visitors, creates new and urgent unmet needs for these parks. Trails must be maintained or upgraded. Trail bridges require maintenance or replacement. Additional interpretive and wayfinding signage is needed. Guided hikes, seminars and workshops, including programs for area school children, must be prepared and delivered. And, the work of conserving additional environmentally-significant lands is far from complete. Your support makes possible the many initiatives of the Friends of South Cumberland State Parks, a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization, working to protect, maintain and enhance two of Tennessee's largest and most spectacular state parks!
By becoming a member of the Friends, you can help insure that South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks will always be safe, well-maintained and amazing places to experience world-class natural beauty!
Funding for the Friends of South Cumberland is derived from individual and corporate memberships and from private donations.
As a 501(c)3 non-profit public benefit corporation, your membership and gifts may be Federally tax deductible.
To aid and assist the managers and staffs of South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks in meeting their objectives, and to inform, educate, engage, and inspire our members and the public to protect, conserve, and enjoy all the resources of the parks.
Why Should You Be a Friends Member?
South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks now protect over 31,000 acres of pristine Tennessee wilderness. Although this is great news, more land, and more visitors, creates new and urgent unmet needs for these parks. Trails must be maintained or upgraded. Trail bridges require maintenance or replacement. Additional interpretive and wayfinding signage is needed. Guided hikes, seminars and workshops, including programs for area school children, must be prepared and delivered. And, the work of conserving additional environmentally-significant lands is far from complete. Your support makes possible the many initiatives of the Friends of South Cumberland State Parks, a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization, working to protect, maintain and enhance two of Tennessee's largest and most spectacular state parks!
By becoming a member of the Friends, you can help insure that South Cumberland and Savage Gulf State Parks will always be safe, well-maintained and amazing places to experience world-class natural beauty!
Funding for the Friends of South Cumberland is derived from individual and corporate memberships and from private donations.
As a 501(c)3 non-profit public benefit corporation, your membership and gifts may be Federally tax deductible.
