National Parks in Tennessee

What This State Directory Includes

This page uses complete NPS state membership. A trail, parkway, river, historic route, or other distributed unit may appear in more than one state. Not every listing is formally designated a National Park, so the designation is shown separately for each site instead of treating every NPS unit as the same park type.

Core park identity and state membership come from locally stored NPS-derived records. Individual park pages provide current bundled NPS visitor information and explain reference-coordinate limitations.

Sites with a National Park Designation

These NPD listings carry a National Park, National Park & Preserve, or National and State Parks designation in the current source record. Some NPS records group related named parks, so this is a directory-record view rather than a claim about the official count of separately designated parks.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park National Park North Carolina, Tennessee

NPS Site Types in Tennessee

All NPS Sites in Tennessee

Map of NPS Sites in Tennessee

The markers use NPS reference coordinates. A reference point may be an administrative or geographic point rather than an entrance, trailhead, visitor center, or nearest access point—especially for trails, rivers, parkways, and other distributed units.

Multi-State and Distributed NPS Sites

12 listings associated with Tennessee also belong to at least one other state or territory. Their state membership is shown below so a single-state label does not imply the whole unit is located only here.

Appalachian National Scenic Trail National Scenic Trail Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia

Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area National River & Recreation Area Kentucky, Tennessee

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park National Military Park Georgia, Tennessee

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park National Historical Park Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia

Fort Donelson National Battlefield National Battlefield Kentucky, Tennessee

Great Smoky Mountains National Park National Park North Carolina, Tennessee

Manhattan Project National Historical Park National Historical Park New Mexico, Washington, Tennessee

Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail National Scenic Trail Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee

Natchez Trace Parkway Parkway Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee

Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail National Historic Trail North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

Shiloh National Military Park National Military Park Tennessee, Mississippi

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail National Historic Trail Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee

City Guides in Tennessee

These are NPD city-based park discovery pages. They compare NPS sites by straight-line distance from each city; they do not claim that a park is located inside the city or that the distance is road mileage.

Source and Freshness

Park identity, designation, complete state membership, images, and reference coordinates are derived from NPD's locally stored National Park Service data. NPD city relationships come from the dedicated city directory and are kept separate from NPS park addresses.

Latest park-source refresh represented on this state page: Sep 26, 2026.