Tennessee Cumberland Plateau Campground

Tennessee Cumberland Plateau Campground is an Airstream-only community with about 150 individually-owned lots and 5 dedicated visitor spaces. The entire property covers 376 mostly-forested acres. It’s open seasonally from mid-April to mid-November. Reservations are made by phone with the campground host; check the website for details. Access to the community is easy if you follow the instructions on their website.

Visitors may be assigned a visitor site, which is outfitted like a traditional campground with a picnic table and pad. These are basic, shady, pleasant, level sites. If you request and one is available, you may be assigned an owner’s site. All sites have water electric and sewer. Most of the owner sites are improved with some or all of the following: covered or uncovered patios, drive-under structures, gardens, screen rooms and any number of amenities. Some are simple and minimalist, others are quite elaborate. As a result, these sites and the facility as a whole seem less like a campground and more like a Airstream tiny-home community. This is one of the qualities that makes a stay here a fun experience.

There is a clubhouse, laundry, playground and lake (that’s currently closed for repairs) as well as a few miles of trails and plenty of open space. There’s also a helipad! Wifi is spotty depending on the time of day and your location. The members have been working hard to improve coverage with new access points distributed around the community. The clubhouse remains the most reliable spot, though. We had 1 bar of ATT—usually!

We visited for 4 nights in late September and stayed in site #71. We had a covered, lighted patio with chairs. The park was relatively quiet and maybe 30% occupied. Everyone we met was friendly - owners and visitors.

What’s there to do outside? The park’s network of trails are in pretty good condition but don’t seem well used. We set out to change that—we ran, hiked and rode all of them! In total, there are maybe 3 miles there but we were able to put together a mix of trail and road to get the mileage we needed.
As for dogs, the park is very dog friendly and there were lots of them. They ask that they be kept under your control but it’s easy to find out of the way places for them to enjoy themselves. Ours enjoyed the trails and the helipad space.

There are plenty of natural areas to visit near the park. Fall Creek Falls state park, with its trails, falls and activities is ~25 miles away. Ozone Falls, near the community of Crab Orchard, was my favorite, a dramatic fall that you can visit from the base or the top. It was very uncrowded when we were there. The Obed river, well known for climbing and challenging river running, is nearby and has trails and access points at several points easily reachable from TCPC. Cumberland Mountain State Park is probably the closet to the park. In addition to hiking trails, it has a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course.

The small town of Crossville is about 20 minutes away and has the usual big-box stores and resources as well as some local attractions like a gourmet cheese shop, a playhouse theater and a historical museum.

TCPC is a great base for visiting some beautiful areas of Tennessee. We're looking forward to visiting again!

Although an Airstream only campground I found that is was a wonderful, relatively inexpensive park. It has 1 unique feature not found in any other campground I have visited, a HELIPORT for medical emergencies.
WIFI was available but periodically had buffering caused by the number of users.

We stayed in one of 5 visitor sites near the entrance. Check in with the Host, Annemarie, was easy and payment was cash or check only. She kindly invited us to join her the next day on her morning hike with her dog on the many trails throughout the huge property owned by the CG. A real treat. Our site was under trees and backed up to a pretty greenway. Easy walk over to the clubhouse for better WiFi but surprisingly could also get it at our site.
All in all, a lovely stay to decompress and rest up for the next travel day.

It's like an airstream neighborhood .. permanent lots are mostly owned and I'm not sure how many people are there full time but it's charming .. the lots range in price depending on what's on it. Some are just bare bones and some have a gazeebo and a screened in area .. etc..

Lost a star for making me feel a tad unwanted .. when I inquired about lots for sale I was told the housing authority has to vote .. so you qualify for the purchase first , then they have to like you enough to let you live there .. anyway .. it was probably my dog (pit bull) and my neck (tattoo)