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First West 1 Convention & Visitors Bureau Visitors & Convention Cookeville-Putnam County Cookeville-Putnam #CarvetheCumberland 1 2 3 4 Center Hill Thrill Ride Back in Time Byway to Bluegrass Sergeant York’s Ride About 77 miles About 109 miles About 105 miles About 115 miles MAKE YOUR WAY along the LET THE WINDING ROADS Walton Road YOUR HISTORY LESSON will historic Walton Road Scenic Byway of the Upper Cumberland take you Scenic Byway carry you through begin along Highway 111. Wind your back in time. Wet your whistle at Sparta, known as Bluegrass USA and way through the Home of Americana Middle Tennessee Dragway. Travel the Bull & Thistle Restaurant and hometown of legendary bluegrass Music in Livingston and across Dale along Highway 96 near Edgar Evins Pub, located on Gainesboro’s artist Lester Flatt. Take in views of Hollow Lake into Byrdstown and State Park through Smithville, and charming town square. Discover a the countryside leading you to the onward to Highway 127, home to the stop by the Appalachian Center for Craft, a satellite campus healing and haunting history in Red Boiling Springs with Cumberland Caverns, Tennessee’s largest show cave and a World’s Longest Yard Sale. Discover a heroic history at the of Tennessee Tech University promoting excellence in points-of-interest like the Armour’s Hotel and the Thomas U.S. National Natural Landmark. The cave displays some of Sergeant Alvin C. York Historic Park and Museum, located American craft. Cross over Center Hill Lake, which holds House. Visit the Walton Hotel and Restaurant, built in 1904 the most spectacular formations in America. Located 333 feet in the Pall Mall community of the Wolf River Valley. The 415 miles of largely undeveloped shoreline and 18,200 by William Walton, the founder of Carthage, Tennessee. below ground, The Volcano Room serves as an amphitheater to attraction pays tribute to York, the marksman who became acres of deep, pure water. While in Baxter, enjoy a history Truly step back in time as you are welcomed to Granville, the Emmy Award-winning Bluegrass Underground. Continue one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I. Continue lesson at the Baxter Depot Museum, one of three depot home of the Sutton Ole Time Music Hour, T.B. Sutton’s to Smithville, where the annual Fiddlers’ Jamboree and Crafts to Jamestown, home to Tennessee’s oldest winery, Highland museums in Putnam County. General Store and Sutton Homestead & Pioneer Village. Festival draws thousands. And for more bluegrass, stop by The Manor. Have a milkshake in the '50s diner located in the Whistle Stop Café as you head back through Baxter. Cumberland Mountain General Store in Clarkrange. 70 151 40 40 295 COOKEVILLE 24 28 80 135 70 96 111 40 40 111 COOKEVILLE 70 52 56 56 70 96 111 24 85 70 70 COOKEVILLE 70 40 127 40 1 70 164 127 40 62 COOKEVILLE 96 111 8 Visit Visit Visit Visit VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/CenterHillThrill VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/RideBackInTime VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/BywayToBluegrass VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/SgtYorksRide 5 6 7 8 Rugby Ride Standing stone Loop Famous Falls Over the Lakes & Through the Parks About 179 miles About 94 miles About 178 miles About 149 miles TAKE IN THE SCENERY as RIDE THROUGH LIVINGSTON, TAKE IN the welcoming waterfalls WITH THREE LAKES that create you venture through Livingston known as the Home of Americana of Burgess Falls State Park, where the more than 1,200 miles of shoreline and and Jamestown along curving Music and Jammin at Hippie Falling Water River drops 250 feet 16 state parks and natural areas within and captivating roadways. Cross Jack’s, a public television series around breathtaking scenery and a 45-minute drive of Cookeville, this into the Big South Fork National broadcast to more than 120 million awe-inspiring overlooks. Next, savor ride will allow you to weave alongside River and Recreation Area, which nationwide. Weave through the the scenic beauty of Rock Island State wonderful waterways. Cross over encompasses 125,000 acres of the Cumberland Plateau. hills and valleys of the Upper Cumberland into Standing Park, a park dominated by the Great Falls of the Caney Fork Cordell Hull Lake as you make your way through the historic The park is rich with natural and historic features. Make Stone State Park. The park covers nearly 11,000 acres on River. This 883-acre park has a natural sand beach on Center and charming towns of Gainesboro and Granville. Explore your way into Rugby, a restored Victorian village founded the Cumberland Plateau and is noted for its outstanding Hill Reservoir. Continue on to Fall Creek Falls State Park, voted in 1880 and nestled between the Big South Fork National scenery, spring wildflowers, fossils and other natural by Southern Living Magazine as the best state park in the Hill Lake and travel through the 6,000-acre Edgar Evins State Recreation Area and the Rugby State Natural Area. Enjoy diversity. Circle back through historic Gainesboro, located southeastern United States. The park boasts Fall Creek Falls, Park near Smithville. Revel in Rock Island State Park’s winding lunch at the Harrow Road Café and take in the rugged near Cordell Hull Lake, then continue your tour along the highest waterfall in the eastern United States at 256 feet. roads and wondrous waterfalls. Enjoy the bows and bends river gorges and historic trails. Travel on to the home of the charming, rural terrain into Granville, where you can Finalize your falls tour in Crossville at Ozone Falls, a 43-acre carrying you onward through Burgess Falls State Park, deemed the World’s Largest Pumpkin in Allardt, then coil your way experience bygone days. Take in scenic rural landscapes as natural area featuring such striking sights that it was selected one of the ”Top Five Ways to Stay Cool in Tennessee” by back along the turns and switchbacks of Wilder Mountain. you return on the historic Walton Road Scenic Byway. for filming scenes for the movie “Jungle Book.” Southern Living Magazine. 85 53 56 40 52 70 28 136 COOKEVILLE 135 297 127 154 29 85 24 40 111 24 52 40 52 53 111 1 96 40 COOKEVILLE 70 111 127 136 85 135 111 56 24 101 40 70 COOKEVILLE 164 COOKEVILLE 40 62 136 30 70 40 287 40 Visit Visit Visit Visit VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/RugbyRide VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/StandingStoneLoop VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/FamousFalls VISITCOOKEVILLETN.COM/OverTheLakes 9 10 11 12 The Water to Wine Route Calfkiller Loop The Boilermaker That Dam Ride About 160 miles About 67 miles About 120 miles About 184 miles CUMMINS FALLS, situated BASK IN THE BEAUTY of EXPECT AN EDUCATION in AT BURGESS FALLS STATE PARK, inside a 211-acre state park, was Burgess Falls State Park and its stein and 'shine as you tour the Upper enjoy picnicking below the dam, which voted one of the top 10 swimming cascading waterfalls. As you Cumberland’s first microbrewery and is also a popular fishing spot along holes in the U.S. by Travel & journey toward Sparta – home of moonshine distillery.