Reelfoot Lake State Park, located in the northwest corner of Tennessee, is one of the greatest hunting and fishing preserves in the nation. The lake encompasses 25,000 acres (15,000 of which are water) and harbors almost every kind of shore and wading bird, as well as the golden and American bald eagles. Other animals are also diverse and abundant here. Its many species of flowering and non-flowering plants attract botany enthusiasts from all over the country. Cypress dominates the shores of the lake, but many other trees and shrubs are also present.
Campgrounds, bathrooms, boardwalk, fishing pier and picnic areas are wheelchair accessible.
Park is open 7 days a week.

Meeman - Shelby Forest
State Park
910 Riddick Road  Millington, TN 38053  •  901-876-5215
or for cabin reservations:  800-471-5293

Bordering on the mighty Mississippi River, two-thirds of this 13,467-acre park are bottomland hardwood forests of large oak, cypress and tupelo. The park also contains two lakes and many miles of hiking trails. The Meeman Museum and Nature Center is named for Edward J. Meeman, courageous conservation editor of Scripps-Howard newspapers who helped establish this park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The park maintains a boat ramp on the Mississippi River. Deer, turkey, beaver and some 200 species of birds are abundant.

who had spent his life empowering and educating African-Americans during the late 1800's and early 1900's. He was also a minister of a Baptist church, a teacher in a North Carolina public school, a principal at the Shiloh Institute, in 1898 he was the only African-American senator in North Carolina, and he was also an important historical and spiritual writer. Dr. Fuller's activism was not necessarily accepted by all advocates for equality because he was more accommodating in his politics of equality than Dr. King's confrontational tactics. Dr. Fuller once said, "Let unnecessary agitation cease. Go to work, be at peace and hold the friendship of your neighbors and your future in politics will take care of itself. "(Commercial Appeal Feb. 16, 1889) While Dr. King may have disagreed with some of Dr. Fuller's non-confrontational tactics, he would have been proud of Dr. Fuller's dedication and impact he had made in teaching black history and black pride. When T.O. Fuller State Park opened in 1942 as Shelby Bluffs State Park, it opened as the first park for African-Americans East of the Mississippi River and the second park for African-Americans in the nation during the early 1940's. This small step towards Dr. Fuller's dream for equality led to a new park name - T.O. Fuller State Park - in honor of Dr. Fuller's life time work for social justice.