Tom and Ginnie's Blog: Cumberland Mountain State Park

We are here for two nights, leaving for Nashville on Monday morning. We spent one night at Black Panther State Park, getting a load of laundry done. Otherwise the stay was a waste, better spent at a Walmart as we did nothing except eat, read and spend the night sleeping.

Tennessee parks, judging by our limited experience feature small campsites close together. The bath houses are older and showers suffer from a lack of hooks which always makes for fun hanging your clothes and towel. Its cooling off and windy as I write this. Our weekly church service will be at 5pm today, only 15 minutes away.
We are talking about playing tourist in Nashville as we have only driven through before as we drove between Florida and Kansas. I'm searching for parks now and there appears to be an Army Corps Camp close to Nville.
Nashville is only about 100 miles further west and would make for a short drive on Monday. Sounds good to me.

Stone Bridge and Dam

Face of the Dam with spillways

The stone bridge and dam were constructed by the CCC. The arches remind me of the Roman Aqueducts. A restaurant overlooks the bridge, a nice restaurant within the park, and thronged on Sunday by the local Church goers. We skipped lunch with the mob and came back for dinner. They have a decent buffet, typical homestyle cooking, and had beef ribs which were very tender.