Head of the Crow State Park

4,258 acres at the headwaters of Crow Creek in Franklin County, joining four state natural areas. The Sewanee Natural Bridge, a 50-foot sandstone arch over Lost Cove, and Buggytop Cave, one of the largest cave openings in Tennessee, are the walks; camping is backcountry.

Franklin CountySewaneeOpenChecked October 20, 2026

1 hr 35 min

By car from the Public Square, 90 mi

4,258

Acres

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Visitors: no published count

Trails listed, 6.6 miles

Camp

Overnight: camping, no sites listed

Activities the state lists

The black dot is Head of the Crow 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
Caving
Hiking
Hunting

On site

Backcountry Campsites
Birding
Gift Shop
Hunting Adjacent
Trails
Visitor Center

The trails

Trails at Head of the Crow State Park, as the state lists them
Trail	Miles	Difficulty	Surface	Now
Buggytop Trail	2.05	Difficult	Natural	Open
Natural Bridge Trail	0.1	Easy	Natural	Open
Pack Hollow Trail	1.6	Moderate	Natural	Open
Peter Cave Entrance Trail	—	—	Natural	Open
Sherwood Day Loop	2.85	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.

Getting there

17 Lake O'Donnell Rd, Sewanee, TN 37375
Park office: 1-615-762-5917
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

Fiery Gizzard State Park8 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 30 min from Franklin
Tims Ford State Park19 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 35 min from Franklin
Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park23 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 10 min from Franklin
Savage Gulf State Park23 miles away as the crow flies · 2 hr 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. Tennessee State Parks.

All 69 parks, by drive time