2 hr 30 min
By car from the Public Square, 144 mi
Field Guide 04 · Tennessee State Parks
Cumberland Trail State Park
A state park that is mostly a footpath: the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail runs along the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau, and the state lists 47 sections of it across 11 counties. The drive time here is to the park office; each section has its own trailheads.
Cumberland CountyPikevilleOpenChecked October 20, 2026
38,000
Acres
114,966
Visitors in fiscal 2022
47
Trails listed, 282.1 miles
Camp
Overnight: camping, no sites listed
3
Activities the state lists
What's there
Things to do
- Camping
- Hiking
- Rock Climbing
On site
- All-Terrain Wheelchair
- Gift Shop
- Rock Climbing
- Trails
- Visitor Center
- Waterfalls
The trails
| Trail | Miles | Difficulty | Surface | Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (01) Cumberland Trail - Cumberland Gap Section | 2.6 | — | Natural | Open |
| (02) Cumberland Trail - Carr Gap Section | 12.9 | — | Natural | Open |
| (03) Cumberland Trail - Tank Springs North Section | 3.8 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| (04) Cumberland Trail - North Cumberland WMA Section | 47.3 | Difficult | Natural | Closed |
| (05) Cumberland Trail - Frozen Head Section | 9.05 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (06) Cumberland Trail - Morgan County Visitor Center Section | 1.6 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (07) Cumberland Trail - Obed Wild and Scenic River Section | 13.5 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| (08) Cumberland Trail - Daddy's Creek Section | 14.3 | — | Natural | Open |
| (09) Cumberland Trail - Black Mountain Section | 10.5 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| (10) Cumberland Trail - Brady Mountain Section | 8.65 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (11) Cumberland Trail - Hinch Mountain Section | 15.2 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| (12) Cumberland Trail - Stinging Fork Section | 5.9 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (13) Cumberland Trail - Piney River Section | 12.05 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (14) Cumberland Trail - Laurel-Snow Section | 5.35 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (15) Cumberland Trail - Graysville Mountain Section | 8.9 | — | Natural | Open |
| (16) Cumberland Trail - McGill Creek Section | 2.3 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (17) Cumberland Trail - Rock Creek Section | 4.8 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (18) Cumberland Trail - Possum Creek Section | 8.2 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| (19) Cumberland Trail - Soddy Creek Section | 15.6 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| (20) Cumberland Trail - North Chickamauga Section | 16.35 | Moderate | Natural | Closed |
| (21) Cumberland Trail - Prentice Cooper Section | 13.7 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Below the Bluff Trail | 0.5 | — | Natural | Open |
| Big Soddy Park Access Trail | 0.7 | — | Natural | Open |
| Black Mountain North Loop Trail | 0.78 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Black Mountain South Loop Trail | 0.66 | — | Natural | Open |
| Buzzard Point Trail | 0.4 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Daddy's Creek Access Trail | 0.15 | — | Natural | Open |
| Duskin Branch Trail | 5.5 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Early Homesite Spur Trail | — | — | Natural | Open |
| Falcon Warrior Trail | 0.6 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Keyes-Harrison Trail | 2.1 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Laurel Falls Trail | 1.3 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Leggett Loop Trail | 1.3 | — | Natural | Open |
| Leggett Point Trail | 0.25 | Easy | Natural | Open |
| Mullen's Cove Loop Trail | 10.2 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Piney Falls Trail | 0.6 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Pot Point Loop Trail | 11.9 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| Ritchie Hollow Trail | 2.1 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Rock Creek Paved Accessible Trail | 0.25 | Easy | Paved | Open |
| Rock Creek Trail | 2.3 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Sarvis Access Trail | 1.6 | Difficult | Natural | Open |
| Selby Loop Trail | 2 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Sluder Road Access Trail | 0.4 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Snow Falls Trail | 2.1 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Stinging Fork Falls Trail | 0.9 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Top of the Falls Trail | 0.15 | Moderate | Natural | Open |
| Twin Rocks Trail | 0.8 | 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.
Getting there
270 Glyph Parkway, Pikeville, TN 37367
Park office: 1-423-533-2928
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
- Cumberland Mountain State Park7 miles away as the crow flies · 2 hr 15 min from Franklin
- Fall Creek Falls State Park22 miles away as the crow flies · 2 hr 15 min from Franklin
- Scott's Gulf Wilderness State Park24 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 55 min from Franklin
- Cherokee Trail of Tears State Park27 miles away as the crow flies · 2 hr 55 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, 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).