hiking along the Cumberland Trail (draft)
4. The Cumberland Trail in Cumberland County
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Table of Contents
The Cumberland Trail in Cumberland County
- Devil’s Breakfast Table to Peavine Parking
- Peavine Parking to McGinnis Creek
- Peavine to FG Overlook Parking Lot
- Peavine to E. Keys Road (Road)
- E. Keyes Road to Yellow Gate Parking
- Yellow Gate Parking to Delozier Bridge
- Power Lines parking to Delozier Bridge
- Power Lines parking to Ozone Parking
- Ozone parking to Black Mountain parking
- Ozone Falls Trail
- Black Mountain Summit Loop
- Black Mountain parking to Hwy 68
- Hwy 68 to Jewitt Rd (Brady Mt)
- Head of Sequatchie: Selby Loop + Devil Step Cave
- Head of Sequatchie: Selby Loop +Spur
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4. The Cumberland Trail in Cumberland County
As you hike these trails you will enjoy a wide variety of terrain and geographical features. We hope these trails take you places that you would not normally go and that you have positive experiences along the way. We hope you enjoy hiking these trails but please stay on the trail when hiking and respect private property in residential communities. Carry plenty of water at all times, use bug-spray and watch your step – it is easy to twist an ankle on rocks and tree roots. Pets are permitted on (nearly) all trails but please pick up after your dog if it fouls the trail-bed.
Table of Contents
The Cumberland Trail in Cumberland County
- Devil’s Breakfast Table to Peavine Parking
- Peavine Parking to McGinnis Creek
- Peavine to FG Overlook Parking Lot
- Peavine to E. Keys Road (Road)
- E. Keyes Road to Yellow Gate Parking
- Yellow Gate Parking to Delozier Bridge
- Power Lines parking to Delozier Bridge
- Power Lines parking to Ozone Parking
- Ozone parking to Black Mountain parking
- Ozone Falls Trail
- Black Mountain Summit Loop
- Black Mountain parking to Hwy 68
- Hwy 68 to Jewitt Rd (Brady Mt)
- Head of Sequatchie: Selby Loop + Devil Step Cave
- Head of Sequatchie: Selby Loop +Spur
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4.1 Devil's Breakfast Table to Peavine Parking
- Distance: 7.6 miles each way (15 miles round-trip)
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:
Trail Description
Driving Directions
4.2 Peavine Parking to McGinnis Creek
- Distance: 2.2 miles each way (4.4 miles round-trip)
- Rating:
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:
Trail Description
Driving Directions
4.3 Peavine to FG Overlook Parking Lot
- Distance: 4.5 miles each way (9 miles round-trip)
- Rating:
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:
Trail Description
Driving Directions
4.4 Peavine to E. Keys Road (Road)
- Distance: 1.8 miles one way, along the road
- Rating:
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:
Trail Description
Driving Directions
4.5 E. Keyes Road to Yellow Gate Parking
- Distance: 4.8 miles each way (9.6 miles round-trip)
- Rating:
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:
Trail Description
Driving Directions
4.6 Yellow Gate Parking to Delozier Bridge
- Distance: 1.6 miles each way (3.4 miles round-trip)
- Rating:
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:
Trail Description
Driving Directions
4.7 Power Lines parking to Delozier Bridge
- Distance: 1.7 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates:35.960250, -85.049983
Description
This is a brand new trail that has just opened in time for this year’s marathon. It is a 1.7 mile “lollipop” trail in the woods pretty close to downtown Crossville. One leg of the loop is along the Obed River. The return is higher up the hillside.
Driving Directions
Take Sparta Highway from West Avenue at Krogers. After half a mile turn right onto the driveway of the Crossville Wastewater Treatment Facility. Before reaching the gates, turn left on the gravel track down to the trail-head parking area.
4.8 Power Lines parking to Ozone Parking
- Distance: 1.0 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Street Address: 1038 Sparta Hwy, Crossville, TN
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.959534, -85.060152
Description
Please do not hike this trail on a Sunday morning as the parking lot will be full with the congregation’s cars. Enter the Meditation Trail and enjoy an easy walk in this quiet spot close to the bustling activity in Crossville. As you walk over the bridge you can visualize how much water gets in the creek after heavy rain…..enough to wash this bridge away three times in recent months!
Driving Directions
Head out of Crossville along Sparta Highway, Route 70. After three quarters of a mile pass Ace Hardware on the right. Approximately a quarter of a mile after Ace turn right into the parking lot of the St Raphael Episcopal Church. Park behind the church close to the trailhead.
4.9 Ozone parking to Black Mountain parking
- Distance: 2.1 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.949616, -85.048862
Trail Closed
This trail was closed in September 2025 due to the construction of a new subdivision. The closure should be temporary until the layot of the subdivision is complete and the trail can be rerouted. The trail is expected to reopen by the end of the year.
Description
This trail opened in July 2022. The trail-head parking is on Deerfield Road. The trail starts across the road from the parking lot. This is an easy lollypop trail along the Obed River.
Head into the woods from the parking lot. Pass the start of the Town Branch Spur on the right. Keep going crossing the creek itself using stepping stones. Look for the large Hilltoppers Bridge on the left. Cross the bridge over Spiers Branch Creek and follow the trail for about half a mile along the Obed River. At the end of the trail is a short loop which you navigate before returning the way you came. The main trail is 0.7 miles long.
On the way back after crossing the Hilltoppers Bridge and stepping over the Town Branch creek, take the trail on the left and check out the Town Branch Spur. It is an additional 0.2 mile, each way in and out, spur trail We recommend that you take the time to check out this extra section of trail. The in-out distance if you do the main trail and the Town Branch spur, 2.1 miles.
Driving Directions
Take Miller Avenue to the stop light at the TCAT college. Take 10th street alongside the college. Follow the road to the stop sign on Deerfield Road. Turn right and the trailhead parking lot will be on your left.
4.10 Ozone Falls Trail
- Distance: North Trail 2.3 miles
- Rating: Moderate
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.946734, -85.093314
Description
NOTE: The Airport Trail parking lot is used as the trail-head for both the North and South Trails.
The North Trail takes you through the “deserts” and along the airport perimeter fence for views of aircraft taking off and landing.
The South Trail is Crossville’s newest trail, completed in July 2024. It is a very pleasant walk trough the woods but with very few natural featues along the way.
Driving Directions:
From Crossville, take Sparta Highway from the Kroger store. Head west for three miles, past the airport termial building and runway. At the end of the runway turn left, just before the recycling center and almost immediately turn left again on to Earl Jones Roard. After about a quarter of a mile you will see the trailhead parking lot on the left.
4.11 Black Mountain Summit Loop
- Distance: South Trail 2.5 miles
- Rating: Moderate
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.946734, -85.093314
Description
NOTE: The Airport Trail parking lot is used as the trail-head for both the North and South Trails.
The North Trail takes you through the “deserts” and along the airport perimeter fence for views of aircraft taking off and landing.
The South Trail is Crossville’s newest trail, completed in July 2024. It is a very pleasant walk trough the woods but with very few natural featues along the way.
Driving Directions:
From Crossville, take Sparta Highway from the Kroger store. Head west for three miles, past the airport termial building and runway. At the end of the runway turn left, just before the recycling center and almost immediately turn left again on to Earl Jones Roard. After about a quarter of a mile you will see the trailhead parking lot on the left.
4.12 Black Mountain Parking to Hwy 68
- Distance: 0.5 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.945185, -85.035752
Description
This short 0.5 mile trail has been constructed mainly for the use of the college students and staff but it is open to the public. It is an easy trail that offers a calm walk in the woods.
Driving Directions
Parking for this short trail is in the GarrisonPark parking lot at the corner of Miller Avenue and 4th Street in downtown Crossville. Please do not park in the college student parking lots as spaces are very limited.
4.13 Hwy 68 to Windlass Cave
- Distance: 3.6 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.973718, -85.044335
Description
This trail is closed due to excessive overgrown vegetation along the trail.
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The trailhead is in the second parking lot. The route passes along the paved trail towards the old dam on the Obed River, turn left onto the dirt Plantation trail. Enjoy this trail as it winds along the Little Obed River. At the end of the trail retrace your steps back to paved trail and return along the Obed River to the trail-head.
Driving Directions
Head out of Crossville on Route 70N, West Avenue, after 1.5 miles from the Kroger’s Plaza, turn right into the Obed River Park. Take the third turn on the left into the parking lot which is the trail-head.
4.14 Hwy 68 to Jewitt Rd (Brady Mt)
- Distance: 3.6 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.973718, -85.044335
Description
This trail is closed due to excessive overgrown vegetation along the trail.
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The trailhead is in the second parking lot. The route passes along the paved trail towards the old dam on the Obed River, turn left onto the dirt Plantation trail. Enjoy this trail as it winds along the Little Obed River. At the end of the trail retrace your steps back to paved trail and return along the Obed River to the trail-head.
Driving Directions
Head out of Crossville on Route 70N, West Avenue, after 1.5 miles from the Kroger’s Plaza, turn right into the Obed River Park. Take the third turn on the left into the parking lot which is the trail-head.
4.15 Head of Sequatchie: Selby Loop + Devil Step Cave
- Distance: 3.6 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.973718, -85.044335
Description
This trail is closed due to excessive overgrown vegetation along the trail.
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The trailhead is in the second parking lot. The route passes along the paved trail towards the old dam on the Obed River, turn left onto the dirt Plantation trail. Enjoy this trail as it winds along the Little Obed River. At the end of the trail retrace your steps back to paved trail and return along the Obed River to the trail-head.
Driving Directions
Head out of Crossville on Route 70N, West Avenue, after 1.5 miles from the Kroger’s Plaza, turn right into the Obed River Park. Take the third turn on the left into the parking lot which is the trail-head.
4.16 Head of Sequatchie: Selby Loop +Spur
- Distance: 3.6 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.973718, -85.044335
Description
This trail is closed due to excessive overgrown vegetation along the trail.
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The trailhead is in the second parking lot. The route passes along the paved trail towards the old dam on the Obed River, turn left onto the dirt Plantation trail. Enjoy this trail as it winds along the Little Obed River. At the end of the trail retrace your steps back to paved trail and return along the Obed River to the trail-head.
Driving Directions
Head out of Crossville on Route 70N, West Avenue, after 1.5 miles from the Kroger’s Plaza, turn right into the Obed River Park. Take the third turn on the left into the parking lot which is the trail-head.
4.17 Black Mountain: Below the Bluffs
- Distance: 3.6 miles
- Rating: Easy
- Trailhead GPS Coordinates: 35.973718, -85.044335
Description
This trail is closed due to excessive overgrown vegetation along the trail.
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The trailhead is in the second parking lot. The route passes along the paved trail towards the old dam on the Obed River, turn left onto the dirt Plantation trail. Enjoy this trail as it winds along the Little Obed River. At the end of the trail retrace your steps back to paved trail and return along the Obed River to the trail-head.
Driving Directions
Head out of Crossville on Route 70N, West Avenue, after 1.5 miles from the Kroger’s Plaza, turn right into the Obed River Park. Take the third turn on the left into the parking lot which is the trail-head.