Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation

Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation is a non-profit land trust, established in 1998 to protect natural and scenic land in Tennessee. It is accredited by the Land Trust Alliance's Land Trust Accreditation Commission. The foundation is supported by membership fees, donations, government grants, and gifts of land from private landowners.

The foundation's misson is to conserve natural monuments such as waterfalls, bluffs and caves. Preservation of such features usually creates relatively small reserves that are not environmentally sustainable in isolation, so the foundation also aims to create corridors of conserved land to link these features and larger reserves (such as national parks and state parks).

Stillhouse Hollow Falls, a 90 acres (36 ha) tract including a 75 foot (23 m) waterfall, was acquired by the foundation in 2006 for $130,000 (equivalent to $154,442 in 2016). The tract was sold to the State of Tennessee for $97,500 (equivalent to $115,832 in 2016) for perpetual preservation as a natural reserve.

Randolph Park Historic Park was established by the foundation in 2008 from the $378,000 (equivalent to $420,474 in 2016) purchase of 19 acres (7.7 ha) of the second Chickasaw Bluff by the Mississippi River. The intention is to expand this to 1,000 acres (400 ha) along the Mississippi River through further acquisitions financed by gifts and government grants.

In 2010, the foundation established Cummins Falls State Park, a day-use park of 211 acres (85 ha) including a 75 foot (23 m) waterfall popular for its natural swimming hole. The natural pool was named by Travel + Leisure as one of America's best swimming holes.

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