Mousetail Landing State Park

1,247 acres on the east bank of the Tennessee River in Perry County, once the site of a tannery. A swim beach, a main campground and a primitive one at Spring Creek, and the 7.5-mile Eagle Point overnight trail with a shelter.

Perry CountyLindenOpenChecked October 20, 2026

1 hr 50 min

By car from the Public Square, 102 mi

1,247

Acres

264,299

Visitors in fiscal 2022

Trails listed, 13.8 miles

Camp

Overnight: camping

Activities the state lists

The black dot is Mousetail Landing 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

Biking
Boating
Camping
Fishing
Hiking
Paddling
Swimming

The trails

Trails at Mousetail Landing State Park, as the state lists them
Trail	Miles	Difficulty	Surface	Now
Eagle Point Trail	7.55	Difficult	Natural	Open
Historic Landing Trail	1.1	—	Natural	Open
Lady's Bluff Trail	2.1	Moderate	Natural	Open
Scenic Trail	2.3	Moderate	Natural	Open
Spring Creek Trail	0.7	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

Main CampgroundTent & RV
Mousetail Landing Spring CreekPrimitive
Eagle Point Trail Shelter 1Backcountry Shelter

Getting there

3 Campground Road, Linden, TN 37096
Park office: 1-731-847-0841
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

Natchez Trace State Park17 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 30 min from Franklin
Johnsonville State Historic Park26 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 30 min from Franklin
Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park30 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 50 min from Franklin
Devil's Backbone State Park33 miles away as the crow flies · 1 hr 5 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).

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