Fall Creek Falls State Park Campground

Our spot was near bathroom and the area was clean. Good hikes nearby. I had good cell reception as well with Verizon so was able to watch a little college football on Saturday.m

Wonderful place, hot water, clean sites. They have a daily trash service and several stores to visit

Beautiful park with lots of activities for kids. The hiking trails were well maintained but vary in difficulty (easy to moderate; side trails to overlooks steep and rocky). Over 200 rv sites, most are close to each other; plan ahead to get a good site. We reserved a year in advanced and at that time no full hook ups were available. The park is a top visited park in TN - it’s crowded.

Absolutely loved this park! Our site was an ADA and it was excellent. Lots of trails, waterfalls, and a great nature center.

There are a lot of very different camp sites. It’s good to do your research to see for the site is laid out. Some are drive through and others are back in. It is very close to excellent hiking. Bring your bikes to discover more of the park.

There is so much to do as soon as you get there. Plenty of hikes and water activities. The falls are beautiful with so many risky lookout points. Will definitely be back!

Loved our site that backed up to a large field with playground!!! Perfect for families with kids that want to play while still having access to your rig. AMAZING hiking and views of the falls! Well worth the hike to the floor of the falls.

We stayed here for a week at the beginning of May and loved it. Quiet spot with easy to access trails around the campgrounds for our two dogs. The roads into the park are fun with some winding roads. Our smaller class C (24ft) handled it just fine but I could see some larger trucks having a slow time if they followed our path which was Hwy30 from Spencer.

The amenities are great, cute camp stores, shops & restaurants. Showers were clean with excellent water pressure. Some sits have sewer hookup but outs was just water & electric. Dump stations are scattered throughout and easy to access however.

Quickly made our list of parks we’d like to revisit in the future.

Falls Creek Falls park is excellent for natural beauty. Wonderful sites, trails, activities for all ages. Campground is good. Few full hook up sites. Gas is a bit of a drive, so fill up before entering the park.

Had a good time. Falls were beautiful but since you can drive and park by the overlook, be ready for a lot of people and dogs. If you like hiking, the trails were very low trafficked, and well maintained.

We stayed in the D campground (which is the closest walking distance to the Falls), however, campsites D180-210 are already close enough together (like your normal campgrounds), BUT when you add the elevation factor, some sites feel right in top of each other.

We have a truck camper and booked the last site available, which was a pull through in between other pull through sites (D192), but I wouldn’t book any of the pull through sites in D, unless you are booking adjacent ones for guests.

Also, 192 may be the smallest site with the worst layout, so take my review with a grain of salt. For instance, the hookups are on the opposite side as other, so I have to face my camper the opposite way, seemingly sharing our firepit and grill areas with our neighbors. This may be great if you know your neighbors, but not ideal for introverts like us (see photo).

Don’t get me wrong; we still had a good time, but the noise levels from other sites having a good time will encroach on your good time as well, making it feel less like camping, and more like a tailgate.

If I could do it over, I’d book more in advance and book a back-in site; one that isn’t right next to the road, or without too many other sites nearby. Sites along the same line as D204+ (same side as the bathrooms) seem to be the best sites.

Lastly, the facilities were but excellent: Campground D had small, but clean bathrooms and showers, and the main Guest Center is super close, with firewood, camping supplies, souvenirs, etc.

4.5/5 with 0.5 removed for layout of Campground D

I was able to squeeze in a last minute campsite for the end of September. We were at A4. The site was labeled as slight incline. This site might be ok for smaller campers, but we had a little trouble with our 35ft camper. Also, this site is at the beginning of the campsite and slopes down a hill… so a lot of the vehicles and bikes go faster at that spot. Lots of wildlife and we walked to the falls.

The trails are well cared for and though it's a very popular place, the waterfalls and sites are amazing.

We stayed here in May while enroute to Memphis. We pulled a small trailer through the campgrounds and stayed at site A3. Site A3 is a pull thru site, that's labeled at the exit of the site, but you have to drive thru the entire campground to enter and there's no label at the entrance of the site; when you exit the site, you have to drive thru the campground unless you want to drive reverse to the one way sign. We also had a tent on the site and we were able to find a semi flat area. All of the sites were full and some large families were having gatherings along the field. The facilities were a short walk away and were well maintained.

Tent-camped midweek on E210. Lots of open spaces in camp. Tent spot was on level gravel RV pad. Air mattress helped with gravel. Site had water and electricity. Showers were clean with hot water. Be sure to lock up food. We were visited by five raccoons nightly. They were able to get into secured plastic bin we left out. Great hiking around falls. Friendly staff at Visitor Center and Nature Center. Well stocked general store. We will be back.

We went during the Folk Festival. The campground was full. We enjoyed our stay. The campsite we stayed at says moderate. If you stay on the paved part, it would be hard to level. But, it had a gravel area you could back into and it wasn’t so bad. Only complaint was our fire pit ended up being on the wrong side of the way we parked the camper.

We stayed Memorial Weekend of 2021 for a total of 4 nights. Tons to do at one of Tennessee’s top state parks. We hiked Fall Creek Falls trail, visited the nature center, walked the suspension bridge, went to the Cane Creek Falls overlook, swam in the Cascades, ate pizza at the snack bar, watched people catch stocked trout at George Hole, and played on the playground. The weather was a little damp, but we didn’t let that stop us!

Excellent state park with multiple waterfalls and trails! Campground C was clean and well kept! Primitive sites have picnic table, fire ring and grill! Bathhouse is nice with warm showers! Across from primitive site 6 is the trail leading to Cane creek falls and Cascades! Also the suspension bridge and nature center right next to them! After finishing with the Cane creek falls head back around and follow the trails with beautiful scenery to fall creek falls!

We love Fall Creek Falls as it is very close to our home and it is a beautiful state park. We stayed in site A21 on a crowded weekend, however it didn’t feel crowded to us. A21 is a great site with plenty of space for our teardrop and screen room. It is a very short walk to the bathroom/showers and also very close to the playground which was great for us with a toddler. The site was well shaded and fairly level. The bathrooms are older and could use some updating but they are clean and serve the purpose. The park actually has good WiFi in most areas, a store nearby with many grocery items, and some great hiking trails. Fall Creek Falls is a favorite for our family!!

Were in site B53 in a motorhome 36ft and can not get level. Description was slightly slopped but we had to back all the way up off the pad to fire pit to almost be level. We super close to bath house which is nice. Camp grounds are clean and we have full hookups which is nice but the 50amp service doesn't work 🤔

Spent 5 days at Fall Creek Falls and have nothing negative to say about our stay. Our site was great, about 100ft from a very nice bath house, which we tended to use daily since our site did not have a sewer hook up. The dump site was very convenient to access as we used it on the way out of the park. The camping areas are great for walking dogs and just getting out, deer tend to live in the campsite areas as we kept seeing the same does with their fawns daily. The hiking is top notch and we did a different trail every day. There are also opportunities to rent canoes, kayaks, paddleboats and such from the marina at decent prices. The general store is well stocked and has convenient store prices on most things except ice; ice is cheap at only $2 a bag which is the same as Walmart. Make sure your gas tank is somewhat full when you get close to the park as there are no gas stations around and if you come south from I40 on 111, be prepared for a 2 mile uphill stretch of 8 and 9% grade! It just seems to go on forever, but the park is worth it!

We stayed there end of July to beginning of August in our motor home. The temperature was really pleasant for that time of year. Sites have electric and water and some have sewer. The sites are nicely laid out. The bathrooms are clean and well maintained. There are so many activities to do at the park. Really good for families with kids of all ages.

We had a great time at this park. I enjoyed the park itself, our campsite not so much. We stayed in campground A, our site was down a hill, and the road is very narrow so backing into it was a little challenging. The bath house was nice, but it was a decent walk from our site and there's only 1 in a campground that was packed.

We (myself, husband, and 2 kids) hiked to the base of FCF, did Cane Creek cascades, went to the Day Use area and an off the beaten path area by there to swim, saw Piney Falls and walked across the suspension bridge there, drove the scenic route of the park. There's so much to do here and it is so beautiful that dealing with the campsite issues was worth it.

We booked a last minute reservation (meaning 3 months ago these days) and were so excited to finally camp here. We had read that campgrounds A and E were the best. We thought we had lucked up with an open spot in A17. The description said it was moderately sloped. We thought, “it can’t be too bad at moderate”. We were so wrong!!! We Have a LevelMatePRO, and at BEST, we were off 11 inches left to right and 8 inches front to back. Many of the campsites are uneven, but this one is TERRIBLE. The state park is beautiful. Just be prepared to level and do your research!

The staff was friendly and the park was beautiful. There is a snack shop which is delicious and a general store which was very helpful when I forgot something and thought I would have to go to Walmart. Campsite C is alittle cramped so beware if you have a big tent. Beautiful trails, and don’t miss out on the pontoon tour!

I enjoyed this little campground, but it could definitely use some updates.  The bathrooms were clean and the showers were nice but a few hooks would be helpful.  Also, I originally reserved site C157 but found it difficult to see how or where I could camp in the spot.  I tent camp and the site is not very level and backs into a very steep hill.  I think spots like this could definitely use some kind of tent pad or decking.  Looking around the campground I think that these kinds of updates could be beneficial.  Especially on tent only sites.  All in all I enjoyed this campground and park.

My family LOVES camping here. It's clean, very safe, and full of activities that my children love. When fall comes around, you won't see more beautiful trees-- the air is so fresh and it's perfect for recharging. Try to book ahead of time because it's always full (it's that good!)

We booked 5 days at FCF SP and enjoyed every minute of it. The waterfalls are spectacular and most of the streams you can swim in and just relax! Stayed in site #C175 and is very quite. Sites C172 -174 are nice and secluded more than the others. Will definitely be coming back here again!

We had an amazing time at FCF! The scenery is amazing. If you like waterfalls, this is your place! So many different places in the park to visit and some are very easily accessible for people with limited mobility. Several hikes get you closer to the falls, but you can see several without a huge strenuous hike. It is one of the best state parks we’ve been to in this area. So many things to do. As for the campground (and why I couldn’t bring myself to give 5 stars) the descriptions and pictures of the sites need to be more accurate. As with all state park campgrounds, it’s not going to be perfectly level or uniform, but I spent days trying to pick the right site for us and our needs. Looked through all the pictures, researched so many spots and finally arrived on a spot in A loop, A13. It mentions “slight incline” and the picture description even showed a truck and camper on the site and it looked very manageable. We backed in to the site and knew immediately we were going to have issues. The site was very long, plenty of room there, but there was no way we were going to get our 5th wheel level short of all 4 tires being off the ground. We went back to the visitor center in a last stitch effort (before hooking up and driving 3 hours back home) to see if there was something else we could do and they graciously moved us to an unused host site in loop B. It was a tremendous improvement. We walked around and find several People had also had issues getting their rig leveled etc. When you are booking these sites remotely, it’s really important that the descriptions are as detailed and as accurate as possible. As mentioned before, we are so thankful for the accommodations they made for us because it was a trip I’m so glad we were able to have, but I’m hopeful that the descriptions on the website will be updated especially or people who are relying solely on what the website says to pick a site that will work for their camper.

Also of important note. Be sure to enter the park via the south entrance if towing anything. Our GPS was directing us via the north entrance and noticed it looked a little treacherous. Did some research on that and found it to be true... switchbacks, no shoulder, very dangerous for anyone towing. South entrance was only a few minutes farther for us and very easy to travel.

Fall Creek Falls State Park is absolutely stunning! We were in Campground B and our site was gorgeous - it was a slight incline, but nothing a couple blocks under the tires couldn't easily fix. Our site was surrounded by trees and felt very private. We enjoyed a hike from our campsite to the top and bottom of Fall Creek Falls, it was not an easy hike down (nor back up) but it was totally worth it. Very pet friendly - our golden retriever enjoyed making many new friends at the campsite and on our hike. The scenic loop was awesome, especially enjoyed the short hike to Piney Creek Falls overlook and the suspension bridge. It was so nice having a general store on site to run in quick and grab the things I forgot at home. We cannot wait to visit this park again and explore the areas around it.

Had a great time backpacking the upper loop trail. First time backpacking and this was an easy beginners trip. Not much in terms if falls for upper loop but the campsites have decent distance between and two out houses. Lots of ticks on us and the dogs with bug spray so be aware. Easy beach to fill water for filtration from creek behind campsite 2.