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Welcome to the Friends of the Cumberland Trail,
Inc., a group of folks interested in supporting Tennessee's
only "linear" state park, a 300 mile hiking trail from Cumberland
Gap to Chattanooga. We are hikers and housewives,
Buzzard Pointstudents and senior citizens, businessmen
and birdwatchers, physicians and farmers, musicians and historians,
writers and river paddlers. But what we all have in common
is the desire to preserve our rich Cumberland Mountain heritage
and to share these stories through the Cumberland Trail. Friends
of the Cumberland Trailis a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
The Cumberland Trail is making history and you can be part
of it. Never before has a “State Park – State Trail” been
created by a partnership between volunteers and state government.
The Cumberland Trail is the only park in the nation with its
own weekly radio program (WDVX on Sundays at 8:30 pm, broadcasting
on 89.9 & 102.9 FM in the Knoxville area or listen to
live broadcasts online at WDVX.com),
and many other “firsts” can be accomplished by the Cumberland
Trail with your help. The Cumberland Trail needs you. Imagine
a foot trail traversing the mountain tops, river gorges, meadows,
and valleys of the Cumberland Plateau through 11 East Tennessee
counties. Consider the rich history, the musical heritage,
the thousands of plants, trees, and creatures unique to the
Cumberland Plateau, and the need to preserve, protect these
resources and to educate Tennesseans and visitors, and you
can begin to understand the breadth of this project.
There's a LOT to do. We want the Cumberland Trail to be a
household word in communities throughout Tennessee--a park
that is used, maintained, promoted, and cherished by its communities
and visitors.
What you can do...
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