WELCOME to DALE HOLLOW LAKE
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TRAILS
| Red Oak Ridge Trail
Latitude: N 36°32'12" Located 8 miles north of Celina, Tennessee off highway 53, hosts 18 miles of beautiful and scenic trails developed for horseback riding. Beginning on a wooded ridgetop, riders and hikers can descend to follow the pristine Dale Hollow Shoreline. Seven loops provide for cutbacks to shorten or lengthen the trail. Eagles Bluff Overlook provides for one of the most spectacular vistas of Dale Hollow Lake. A corral, storm shelter, and stalls are available. Free primitive camping permit required for overnight stays. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited and coggins papers required. Follow the signs toward Holly Creek Marina and Red Oak Ridge.
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| Accordion Bluff Hiking
Trail
Length: 8 miles An 8-mile stretch of scenic trail that connects the Lillydale and Willow Grove Campgrounds, both located approximately 20 miles north of Livingston, Tennessee and 10 miles south of Celina. This natural soil surface trail winds along the shoreline of Dale Hollow, ascends to the ridge-top and then returns back toward the shoreline. The area is thickly forested and contains some old growth timber. Accordion Bluff is ideal for birders and wildflower enthusiasts. In the winter time this is a pretty good trail for bald eagle viewing and other bird watching and other wildlife viewing. The is plenty of parking at the trailheads at both Lillydale & Willowgrove campgrounds. For more information contact the Resource Manager's Office at (931) 243-3136, 7am until 4pm CST.
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| Burgess Falls Trail
(State
of TN Park Site) Directions from Dale Hollow Lake
Burgess Falls is a 350-acre natural area in Putnam and White Counties and is located approximately thirteen miles southwest of Cookeville. It is managed by Tennessee State Parks. Burgess Falls lies on the rugged dissected eastern edge of the Eastern Highland Rim resulting in the occurrence of sheer bluffs, narrow ridges, waterfalls, and diverse forest communities. It was named for Tom Burgess, an American Revolutionary War veteran, who was deeded the land in 1793 by the U.S. Government as partial payment for his services. For many decades the Burgess family provided settlers with meal and cut lumber from their gristmill and lumber mill on Falling Water River above the falls. Burgess Falls is most noted for its scenic value as Falling Water River drops nearly 250 feet over three waterfalls. The last of these falls is the most spectacular and begins where the water comes to the sharp edge of the riverbed and plunges more than 130 feet into the gorge. Protruding rocks halfway down break the curtain of water and spread a mist around the base of the falls. The bluffs rise on each side of the gorge framing the falls in rough gray rock. A steep trail leads to the edge of the falls, and a stairway leads into the gorge. This short trail provides relatively easy access to one
of Tennessee's most picturesque falls, passing two progressively larger falls on
the Falling Water River, and culminating in a broad cascade into a wide natural
amphitheater at the trail's end.
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