Due to a water shortage, the public restrooms and campground bathhouses at Fall Creek Falls State Park are closed. However, portable toilets are available at each bathhouse and are being serviced as often as possible. Those with current or upcoming reservations are welcome to stay. However, if you wish to change or cancel your reservation, …
On Thursday afternoon, just after 12, Piney Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to Fall Creek Falls State Park for a report of females in a raft below the swinging bridge, and one was injured. Park rangers and fire personnel arrived to find everyone out of the water. The teenagers had ridden an inflatable raft down …
Select Tennessee State Parks have the perfect way to treat moms with meals, events, and gifts on Mother’s Day, May 11. Seven state park restaurants, including Fall Creek Falls, will offer special dining for the occasion, and many other parks will have events that day, although not all are tied specifically to Mother’s Day. The …
Dunlap and Pikeville Fire Departments responded with their rope rescue teams to a mutual aid request from Piney Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday around noon. Two people fell off an embankment on the Paw Paw Trail at Fall Creek Falls. Piney responded with Fall Creek Falls Fire Department, Van Buren County EMS, and Fall Creek …
Tennessee State Parks has announced the installation of adult-sized changing tables at five state parks as part of an effort to increase accessibility for all visitors. The added tables bring the total of parks with adult-sized changing tables to six, including one announced in January at Natchez Trace State Park. July marked the 34th anniversary …
At 2:42 Saturday afternoon, Piney Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire with Spencer Fire-Rescue, Fall Creek Falls Fire Dept, and Cedar Grove Fire Department. The structure was a large shed with many golf carts inside at the Dead Zero Shooting Park. Due to the reported size of the fire and the location, the …
On Sunday afternoon around 12:30 Piney Volunteer Fire Department and Fall Creek Falls Fire Department received a call of a person injured at the base of Cane Creek Falls / Cable Trail area. Fall Creek Falls State Park rangers arrived to find the patient in the water at the base of the falls. The patient …
Late Saturday morning, the Piney Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to Fall Creek Falls State Park for someone who fell over a bluff at Rocky Point Overlook off the Woodland Trail. Park rangers were able to locate the man. The patient was awake but injured. Dunlap Fire Department was requested as mutual aid. Fall Creek …
At approximately 3:00 pm Tuesday, January 16, 2024, Piney Volunteer Fire Department, Fall Creek Falls Fire Department, Fall Creek Falls State Park, and Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a lost person off Park Road near the north entrance of Fall Creek Falls State Park. Personnel arrived and found tracks in the snow …
