55 min
By car from the Public Square, 47 mi
Field Guide 04 · Tennessee State Parks
Cedars of Lebanon State Park
Named for the eastern red cedars of Wilson County's limestone glades, an open, rocky habitat with plants found in few other places. The plan counts 117 campsites, nine miles of hiking trail and 12 of horse trail, with cabins, a stable and a disc golf course.
Wilson CountyLebanonOpenChecked October 20, 2026
1,000
Acres
1,634,441
Visitors in fiscal 2022
8
Trails listed, 11.4 miles
Cabins
Overnight: camping, cabins
7
Activities the state lists
What's there
Things to do
- Birding
- Camping
- Caving
- Disc Golf
- Hiking
- Horseback Riding
- Hunting
On site
- Adult-Sized Changing Table
- All-Terrain Wheelchair
- Aviary
- Birding
- Cabins
- Campground
- Disc Golf Course
- Gift Shop
- Group Lodges
- Horseback Riding
- Laundromat
- Museum
- Playground
- Snack Bar
- Stables
- Trails
- Visitor Center
- Wheelchair-Friendly Paved Trails
The trails
| Trail | Miles | Difficulty | Surface | Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Creek Trail | 0.6 | Easy | Paved | Open |
| Cedar Forest Trail | 1.9 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Cedar Glade Trail | 0.5 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Cedar Run Trail | 2.2 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Dixon Merritt Trail | 0.6 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Hidden Springs Trail | 4.2 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Limestone Sink Trail | 0.4 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Sadie Ford Farm Birding Trail | 1 | Easy | 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
- Cedars of Lebanon CampgroundRV ยท Tent & RV
Getting there
328 Cedar Forest Road, Lebanon, TN 37090
Park office: 1-615-443-2769
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
- Long Hunter State Park13 miles away as the crow flies · 40 min from Franklin
- Bledsoe Creek State Park20 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 10 min from Franklin
- Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park26 miles away as the crow flies · 30 min from Franklin
- Radnor Lake State Park27 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 2022 (July 2021 to June 2022).