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Field Guide 04 · Tennessee State Parks

Warriors' Path State Park

On the Holston River in Kingsport, named for the Great Native American War and Trading Path. A marina, a golf course, stables, a boundless playground and 29 listed trails, many of them for mountain bikes.

Sullivan CountyKingsportOpenChecked October 20, 2026

4 hr 35 min
By car from the Public Square, 289 mi
1,030
Acres
1,382,933
Visitors in fiscal 2022
29
Trails listed, 22.3 miles
Camp
Overnight: camping
8
Activities the state lists
Where Warriors' Path State Park isA map of Tennessee marking Warriors' Path State Park, in Sullivan County, and Franklin.FRANKLIN
The black dot is Warriors' Path 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
  • Birding
  • Camping
  • Fishing
  • Golfing
  • Hiking
  • Marina
  • Paddling

On site

  • Accessible Paddling Launch
  • Adult-Sized Changing Table
  • All-Terrain Wheelchair
  • Bike Trails
  • Birding
  • Boat Access
  • Boat Ramp
  • Boat Rentals
  • Camp Store
  • Campground
  • Canoe Access
  • Disc Golf Course
  • Fishing
  • Gift Shop
  • Golf Course
  • Horseback Riding
  • Marina
  • Paddle Rentals
  • Playground
  • Snack Bar
  • Stables
  • Swimming
  • Trails
  • Wheelchair-Friendly Paved Trails

The trails

Trails at Warriors' Path State Park, as the state lists them
TrailMilesDifficultySurfaceNow
Boneyard1.9DifficultNaturalOpen
Boneyard Connector0.1DifficultNaturalOpen
Connector Trail0.3EasyNaturalOpen
Darwins Connector0.1DifficultNaturalOpen
Darwins Revenge1.9DifficultNaturalOpen
Devils Backbone Trail1.15ModerateNaturalOpen
Duck Island Pathways1.18EasyPavedOpen
Fall Creek Loop Trail1ModerateNaturalOpen
Fawn Loop0.6EasyNaturalOpen
Holston Bluff Trail0.6ModerateNaturalOpen
Lake Hollow Trail0.6ModerateNaturalOpen
Lake Road0.8EasyNaturalOpen
Lakeshore Trail0.35EasyNaturalOpen
Lions Braille Trail0.25EasyNaturalOpen
Magic Carpet Ride0.1DifficultNaturalOpen
Overlook Trail1.1EasyNaturalOpen
Paw Paw0.4ModerateNaturalOpen
Paw Paw Connector0.1ModerateNaturalOpen
Ridgetop0.4DifficultNaturalOpen
Riverbank Trail0.25EasyNaturalOpen
Rock City0.5DifficultNaturalOpen
Sinking Waters Forest Loop Trail0.85ModerateNaturalOpen
Sinking Waters Marsh Loops Trail0.4ModerateNaturalOpen
Sinking Waters Meadow Loop Trail0.8ModerateNaturalOpen
Wahoo2.2ModerateNaturalOpen
Whitetail Alternate0.2ModerateNaturalOpen
Whitetail Loop2.2ModerateNaturalOpen
Woodland Ridge Trail1.55ModerateNaturalOpen
Zipline0.4ModerateNaturalOpen

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

  • Warriors' Path Main CampgroundTent & RV
  • Warriors' Path Moody Bluff CampgroundTent & RV
  • Hammock CampgroundHammock

Getting there

490 Hemlock Road, Kingsport, TN 37663
Park office: 1-423-239-8531
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

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Acres. The park's strategic management plan.
  3. Visitors. The park's strategic management plan, its site fact sheet for fiscal 2022 (July 2021 to June 2022).

All 69 parks, by drive time