Cumberland Mountain State Park is situated on the Cumberland Plateau, a segment of the great upland, which extends from western New York to central Alabama. It is said to be the largest timbered plateau in America. Cumberland Mountain State Park began as part of the greater Cumberland Homesteads Project, a New Deal-era initiative by the Resettlement Administration that helped relocate poverty-stricken families on the Cumberland Plateau to small farms centered on what is now the Cumberland Homestead community. This 1,720-acre park was acquired in 1938 to provide a recreational area for some 250 families selected to homestead on the Cumberland Plateau.

The Tennessee State Parks are again partnering with the Garden Club of America with a nationwide single day volunteer event on March 1st. The Garden Club of America is encouraging partners to help connect the concept of healthy native habitats with increases in native wildlife that we love, like birds!

For this annual Weed Wrangle on March 1st, the Park and Friends of Cumberland Mountain State Park will clear non-native invasives from the area between Byrd Lake and the ADA trail where FGGC volunteers helped us to plant  a meadow of 3,800 plugs in December. We will meet at the Recreation Lodge at 10am. Brad Fox of OWCA will discuss the value of native plants. Then we will go to the ADA trail and remove nonnative invasives like multiflora rose. Later on we will plant native pollinator friendly shrubs and beautify the area.

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For more information on the Friends Group and projects, they have completed click the tab at the top of the page.

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