Parks & Partners

The Cumberland Piedmont Network works with parks that contain tremendous cave ecosystems, including Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the world's longest documented cave. These caves provide habitat for many endemic species, and several federally-listed species such as the Indiana bat, gray bat, and Kentucky cave shrimp. The aquatic ecosystems are also significant, and include the free-flowing Little River in Alabama, one of the cleanest and wildest waterways in the South. The terrestrial ecosystem is diverse, with globally rare communities such as the limestone glades at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia and Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee, and the granite domes at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in North Carolina. Many forests contain tracts of unfragmented areas which support wildlife such as the black bear at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, and unique wetland communities found in the floodplain forests of Shiloh National MIlitary Park in Tennessee.

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  Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP

  This Kentucky park contains two units, approximately 10 miles apart. One is our 16th president's birthplace, the other, his boyhood home.

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  Carl Sandburg Home NHS

  The forested terrain surrounds the poet's home place cut with mountain streams, feeding into small, scenic lakes.

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  Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP

  Park has limestone cedar glades, creek bluffs, willow oak ponds, forested sandstone cliffs, and limestone slopes with springs and caves.

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  Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

  Cumberland Gap is a natural pass located where the borders of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet. The park contains Cumberland Mountain.

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  Fort Donelson National Battlefield

  Park units are topographically diverse, ranging from dry ridges to bottomlands. A mosaic of forest types occur depending upon topography.

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  Guilford Courthouse NMP

  Despite victory, overwhelming British losses hastened the end of the Revolutionary war here, a park of mowed fields and flat upland woods.

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  Little River Canyon National Preserve

  This Alabama preserve protects the nation's longest mountaintop river. Almost its entire length flows down the middle of Lookout Mountain.

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  Mammoth Cave National Park

  The Cumberland Piedmont Network's largest unit, it contains forested hills, two rivers and the longest recorded cave system in the world.

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  Russell Cave National Monument

  Located in northeastern Alabama, Russell Cave has one of the longest and most complete archaeological records in the eastern United States.

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  Shiloh National Military Park

  Site of a major battle in the Civil War, it contains fields, floodplains, bottomland and swamp forests; and steep bluffs and rock outcrops.

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  Stones River National Battlefield

  One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, this 700-acre site consists of multiple units, including a National Cemetery.

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  Revolutionary Southern Campaign Parks

  A trio of parks which represent critical battles in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.