Located off U.S. Hwy. 70, the park is named for Military Governor Andrew Johnson. This 600-acre park on the eastern side of Kentucky Lake overlooks the site of the Battle of Johnsonville. Cavalry forces under Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest sank four Federal gunboats downstream and destroyed a Union Army supply depot at Johnsonville. Four of the original breastworks are beautifully preserved. Interpretive tours are available.

also includes four lakes, a swimming beach, a 47 room resort inn and restaurant complex, cabins, group lodge, camping areas, picnicking sites, playgrounds, a ballfield, a regulation pistol firing range, picturesque hiking trails, a wrangler camp, 250 miles of horse riding trails, a park store, and archery range.
Administration of this area is shared by the TN Division of State Parks, the TN Division of Forestry, and the TN Wildlife Resources Agency. The area provides not only recreation, but managed hunting as well.
Here, too, is the third largest pecan tree in North America! Legend has it that the tree grew from a pecan presented to a settler by one of Andrew Jackson's men as they returned from the Battle of New Orleans.

opportunity for family canoe float trips.
The park office also serves as a museum/interpretive center. There is no admission fee. Exhibits include a snake skin, stuffed beaver, owl, hawk, turkey, duck and a goose. There is an Indian artifact collection and other area artifacts.

Tennessee State Park system in the early 1970’s. It was during this time that the inn, cabins, marina and picnic shelters were developed. Today Pickwick Landing is one of the most visited parks in the system.

natural air conditioning. In the roomy mouth of the cave, square dances, radio shows, and big band era concerts were once held.