Bledsoe Creek State Park

A 169-acre park on the Bledsoe Creek arm of Old Hickory Lake, six miles outside Gallatin. It is built for camping, with 68 RV sites that have power and water, three hammock-only sites, two boat ramps and a set of short trails, some of them paved.

Sumner CountyGallatinOpenChecked October 20, 2026

1 hr 10 min

By car from the Public Square, 59 mi

169

Acres

84,898

Visitors in fiscal 2025

Trails listed, 4.7 miles

Camp

Overnight: camping

Activities the state lists

The black dot is Bledsoe Creek State Park; the square is Franklin. The grey dots are the other state parks. All of them, by drive time.

What's there

Things to do

Birding
Camping
Fishing
Hiking
Paddling

The trails

Trails at Bledsoe Creek State Park, as the state lists them
Trail	Miles	Difficulty	Surface	Now
Birdsong Trail	0.25	Easy	Paved	Open
High Ridge Trail	1.3	Moderate	Natural	Open
Mayo Wix Trail	0.75	Easy	Paved	Open
Owl Ridge Trail	0.25	Difficult	Natural	Open
Shoreline Trail	1.3	Moderate	Natural	Open
Storybook Loop	0.35	Easy	Paved	Open
Tennessee History Trail	0.35	—	Natural	Open
Woodchuck Hollow Trail	0.2	Moderate	Natural	Open

As the park's hiking page lists them on October 20, 2026. Lengths are one way unless the trail is a loop, and some trails share ground, so the total is the sum of the list, not the miles on the ground.

Where to camp

Main CampgroundTent & RV
Hammock CampgroundHammock

Getting there

400 Zieglers Fort Road, Gallatin, TN 37066
Park office: 1-615-452-3706
The park's page at Tennessee State Parks

Campsites, cabins and lodge rooms are booked online through the park's page or by phone at 1-888-867-2757, the state's reservation line.

Nearby

Cedars of Lebanon State Park20 miles away as the crow flies · 55 min from Franklin
Long Hunter State Park23 miles away as the crow flies · 40 min from Franklin
Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park28 miles away as the crow flies · 30 min from Franklin
Radnor Lake State Park33 miles away as the crow flies · 20 min from Franklin

How we know

Every fact on this page but the summary at the top is the state's, read on the date above, except the drive: that is Valhalla's route on OpenStreetMap's roads from Franklin's Public Square to the park office, with no traffic, rounded to five minutes. Visits are the park plan's count for the year named, mostly from traffic counters. How the guide was made.

The park. Tennessee State Parks: the Find a Park list, the park's own page, its hiking page and its camping page, read October 20, 2026.
Acres. The park's strategic management plan.
Visitors. The park's strategic management plan, its site fact sheet for fiscal 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025).

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