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Address and Phone:
24 Office Drive South
Crossville, TN 38555

Phone: (931) 484-6138

Hours Open to the Public:
Open Year-round

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Ozone Falls

City: Crossville, TN
Region: Middle Tennessee
Subregion: Upper Cumberland

This scenic waterfall, managed by the Tennessee State Parks System, offers an array of hiking and naturalist activities. Ozone Falls is a 43-acre natural area in Cumberland County. Ozone Falls plunges 110 feet over a sandstone cap rock into a deep blue, rock-strewn pool. Fall Creek then disappears underground until it reemerges several feet downstream.

An impressive rock house “amphitheater” can be seen behind the falls that was created over geologic time by wind, water, freeze/thaw and erosion. Because of its picturesque beauty and easy access, Ozone Falls was selected for filming scenes for the movie “Jungle Book.”

Small open glades occur on the bluffs that support native grasses and prairie plants. The surrounding upland vegetation is dominated by oaks and Virginia pine. A remnant old growth mixed mesophytic forest community is found beneath the waterfall. It is comprised of eastern hemlock, white pine, magnolia, yellow birch, sugar maple, tulip poplar and red oak, and with rosebay rhododendron in the shrub layer. The stream contains many huge boulders, some the size of houses, and many small placid pools. A rugged ¾-mile trail begins along the bluff near the falls, then descends into the gorge, passing a small rock house called Gamblers Den. The trail follows Fall Creek to the confluence with Renfro Creek where hikers must backtrack to return to the trailhead.





Interstate 40, exit 329, Ozone Falls is approximately 4.6 miles to the east.

Get turn-by-turn direction using the interactive map above.

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Places to stay

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Upcoming events

Date: Mar 1, 2012 - May 25, 2012
The Moving of Lilla Barton
Location: Crossville, TN

Date: May 20, 2012 - May 25, 2012
Week-long Craft Workshops
Location: Smithville, TN

Date: May 26, 2012
Granville Heritage Day
Location: Granville, TN

Date: May 26, 2012
Granville Heritage Day
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