Best in Tent Camping: Tennessee: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos »

Johnny Molloy is an outdoor writer based in Tennessee. He has averaged over one hundred nights in the wild per year since the early 1980's, backpacking and canoe camping throughout our country. He has written numerous books covering much of the U.S. from Florida to Wisconsin to Colorado and articles for magazines and Web sites.

From river wetlands in the east to weathered mountains in the west, camping in Tennessee has never been better. The Best in Tent Camping: Tennessee is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs.

(1) Big Hill Pond State Park
(2) Chickasaw State Park
(3) Fort Pillow State Park
(4) Meeman-Shelby State Park
(5) Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park
(6) Natchez Trace State Park
(7) Pickwick State Park
(8) Anderson Road
(9) Bledsoe Creek State Park
(10) Cedars of Lebanon State Park
(11) David Crockett State Park
(12) Edgar Evins State Park
(13) Fall Creek Falls State Park
(14) Gatlin Point
(15) Harpeth River Bridge
(16) Henry Horton State Park
(17) Lillydale
(18) Meriwether Lewis Monument
(19) Montgomery Bell State Park
(20) Mousetail Landing State Park
(21) Old Stone Fort State Park
(22) Piney
(23) Ragland Bottoms
(24)
Rock Island State Park
(25) Rushing Creek
(26) Abrams Creek
(27) Bandy Creek
(28) Cardens Bluff
(29) Chilhowee
(30) Cosby
(31) Dennis Cove
(32) Foster Falls Recreation Area
(33) Franklin State Forest
(34) Frozen Head State Park
(35) Hiwassee-Ocoee Scenic River State Park
(36) Holly Flats
(37) Indian Boundary
(38) Jake Best
(39) Little Oak
(40) Nolichucky Gorge
(41) Norris Dam State Park
(42) North River
(43) Obed Wild & Scenic River
(44) Old Forge
(45) Paint Creek
(46) Pickett State Park
(47) Prentice Cooper State Forest
(48) Rock Creek
(49) Round Mountain
(50) Sylco