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​Why Should You Be a Friends Member?

Fiery Gizzard, Head of the Crow and Savage Gulf State Parks now protect a combined 31,000 acres of pristine Tennessee wilderness. Although this is great news, more land, and more visitors, creates new and urgent unmet needs for the park. Trails must be maintained or upgraded. Improved trailheads, interpretive and directional signage are needed. Invasive pests, like the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, and invasive plants must be controlled. Guided hikes, seminars and workshops, including programs for area school children, must be prepared and delivered. And, the work of conserving additional environmentally-significant lands is far from complete.

As one of our outstanding Park Rangers said, "The best thing that has ever happened to these Parks is the formation of our Friends group. They have purchased land to add to your parks, have provided construction materials, built bridges, a ranger house, picnic shelters, rescue equipment for the rangers, helped build, assess, and maintain trails, created education programs for our local schools, totally renovated the South Cumberland Park's Information & Welcome Center, created the new interpretive area at the site of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and have made many other improvements to your parks. If you love the parks, join the Friends and help them work with us to care for and improve this wonderful wilderness resource!"

Your membership supports the work of the Friends of the Parks, on behalf of the parks. You will be empowering a group working to save great spaces in the South Cumberland and help protect and maintain these magnificent parks.

• You will receive the monthly Trail Tracker email to keep you updated on Friends and Park news, issues, events and volunteer opportunities.

• You will be eligible for members-only programs and events, such as the Tennessee Naturalist Program.

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The Friends of the Parks is a group of volunteer citizens dedicated to supporting Fiery Gizzard, Head of the Crow and Savage Gulf State Parks. Funding for the Friends of the Parks is derived from individual and corporate memberships and from private donations. Our tax deductible status was approved in July 1994. As a 501(c)3 non profit public benefit corporation, your membership and gifts may be Federally tax deductible.   Please join us in supporting and protecting the South Cumberland State Parks!