Red Clay State Historic Park spans 263 acres in southern Bradley County, Tennessee, just north of the Georgia state line near Cleveland, preserving the final capital grounds of the Cherokee Nation from 1832 to 1838 before the Trail of Tears forced removal.
Historic RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, built in 1957, is a legendary recording studio famous as the birthplace of the Nashville Sound, which brought a smoother, pop-influenced style to country music.
Mousetail Landing State Park covers 1,247 acres on the eastern bank of the Tennessee River in Perry County near Linden, established in 1979 and named for mice fleeing a burning tannery during the Civil War.
Long Hunter State Park spans about 2,600 acres along the eastern shores of Percy Priest Lake in Hermitage, Tennessee, near Nashville, divided into three main sections—Baker's Grove, Couchville, and Bryant Grove—plus the separate Sellars Farm archaeological site.
Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park covers 12,539 acres of hardwood bottomland forest bordering the Mississippi River, about 13 miles north of Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Lookout Mountain is a prominent ridge part of the Cumberland Plateau, stretching about 84 miles through Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, with its highest peak reaching around 2,392 feet near High Point, Georgia.
Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park spans 2,076 acres in Unicoi County, East Tennessee, near Flag Pond along the Tennessee-North Carolina line, forming part of the 10,000-acre Rocky Fork watershed surrounded by Cherokee National Forest.
Indian Mountain State Park, spanning 213 acres near Jellico in Campbell County, Tennessee, sits at the base of 1,949-foot Indian Mountain along Elk Creek near the Kentucky border.
Standing Stone State Park in Overton County, Tennessee, spans 855 acres within the larger 11,000-acre Standing Stone State Forest on the Cumberland Plateau, named for a historic 12-foot sandstone monolith once marking an Indian boundary line now preserved in nearby Monterey.
Big Cypress Tree State Park covers 330 acres in Weakley County near Greenfield, Tennessee, named for a massive bald cypress tree—once the largest in the U.S. and east of the Mississippi—that lived over 1,350 years before lightning killed it in 1976.
The Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee, is a living history museum founded in 1969 by John Rice Irwin that recreates a pioneer Appalachian village and mountain farm, featuring over 36 authentic log buildings like cabins, barns, and churches set across 65 acres.
