2025 Road Trip - Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee by Holden Jones

Holden Jones
Jun 2
3 min read

Updated: Jun 4

We’ve hit the road on our first big adventure with Coddiwomple (our trusty pickup), Cat (our cozy RV), and Rita, our ever-faithful travel companion. We rolled out of Belton on May 15, and we’re excited to share the journey—one stop at a time.

This blog will mostly fall into the Mile Marks – Feeding Our Wanderlust category, as entries will be organized by the places we stay in our home on wheels. However, I’ll also be sharing stories about the amazing people we meet, the beautiful places we explore, and, of course, the delicious food we find, cook, and enjoy. I hope you come along for the ride.

This is one of the parks I had on my list to see when we first started planning our trip, and I was so excited that Jacob and Holden got to come see it with us. Holden talked so descriptively about his adventures at Fall Creek Falls State Park that I asked him to be a guest writer for my blog.

Campsite on Loop C

The site has nice grass with cement to put our chairs on. It also has a picnic table, a grill and a firepit. Papa built us a fire after our first day of hiking. It was nice to sit by while we relaxed at our campsite.

When we were exploring, we found a big tree that fell over by the creek. The trunk is broken. A little of the bark is off. It is tilted. It is longer than Papa's pickup and about three yards off the ground at the tallest part. ZeeZee took a picture of me by the trunk and I took a picture of her with the whole tree.

Cane Creek Falls Trail and Suspension Bridge

The trail had a lot of rocks that were made into steps. Most of them were huge.

On the trail there was a fence, and when we looked over it, we saw a waterfall. I said, "Let's go to the waterfall." To get to the waterfall, we had to cross a long suspension bridge that was pretty shaky.

When we got off the bridge we had to walk and climb over a rough trail along the river.

We had to cross the river through some fast-running water. I held Papa's hand through the water. Dada and ZeeZee were not going to get in the water until they saw how much fun Papa and I were having.

After we got to the other side we had to crawl along the edge, then climb up to get inside a pretty cool cave. Some of the rocks were slippery. Inside the cave were a lot of rocks, some dirt, and plants. Papa crawled all the way up with me.

Then we hiked to the top of a huge waterfall. The water falling was rushing, but it made a nice, soft sound. It was a little scary to look over the edge, and I thought I might fall, because there was no fence.

On our way back from the waterfall, we found a really big tree and Dada, Papa and I tried to reach all the way around it. Papa said the tree was a hemlock tree.