1.  STATE PARK VISITOR CENTER.  A trip to Reelfoot Lake would not be complete if you miss the Visitor and Interpretive Center.  Exhibits explore the formation, history, natural diversity, and future of Reelfoot Lake.  Walk a scenic boardwalk over the lake and through the cypress trees.

2.  STATE PARK PICNIC AREAS.  Reelfoot Lake State Park has provided four lake front picnic areas.  These scenic areas provide lakeside tables and grills as well as areas from which to fish, including fishing piers.

3.  REELFOOT SPILLWAY.  See the controversial historic structure that helps to control the level of the lake.  In 1937, dynamite was found at the spillway, and only a wet fuse saved the lake.  The controversy over who should control the lake levels continues today.  Area offers picnic facilities and places to fish from the shoreline.

4.  STATE PARK CAMPGROUND.  Visit the beautiful Reelfoot Campground, lakeside campsites nestled among cypress trees with an excellent view of the setting sun over Reelfoot Lake.

5.  HISTORIC SAMBURG.  One of the oldest communities on Reelfoot Lake; motels, restaurants, and shops are located along the lake shore,  View Eagles in the winter and water flowers in the summer.

6.  NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE VISITOR CENTER AND MUSEUM.  The visitor center provides information about the great diversity of plants, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals that call Reelfoot Lake home.  The museum has excellent exhibits on the birds and wildlife.

7.  GRASSY ISLAND WILDLIFE DRIVE.  Drive or walk through the Grassy Island portion of the Wildlife Refuge.  An excellent place to observe woodland birds and mammals.  The drive ends at a boardwalk and observation platform on the lake, and this is an excellent place to watch a beautiful Reelfoot sunset over the cypress filled waters.

8.  BAYOU DE CHEIN.  The "River of the Dogs" flowed through this area long before the earthquakes formed the lake, and it can still be traced through the lake to the Obion River.  The farm road along the bayou is closed to vehicles, but provides an excellent walking trail for observing wildlife.  Walk approximately 3 miles round trip.

9.  LONG POINT PORTION OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.  Several gravel roads provide excellent wildlife drives through open fields and woods.  Mammals and birds can often be observed.  Good area to observe migratory birds in fall and spring, and thousands of ducks and Canada Geese call the refuge a winter home.

10. STATE PARK AIRPARK.  The Airpark facilities include picnic area, boat launch, campground and air strip. The Airpark is built out on a pier over a small shallow part of Reelfoot Lake.  The pier offers eagle viewing in winter months, and provides a great view of the sun rise as the reflection sparkles on the water.  The water in this area is shallow and cypress trees and water flowers are found in abundance.

11. REELFOOT WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA NORTH.  The Wildlife Management Area provides a home for many kinds of birds and wildlife.  Birds can usually be seen, in winter watch for ducks and eagles, in spring herons, egrets, and other wading birds can be seen feeding in the shallow water.  An old road provides an excellent walking area to watch for wildlife; it dead ends at Reelfoot Lake.

12. BLACK BAYOU HIKING TRAIL.  Take gravel road along Black Bayou Refuge to observe waterfowl and wildlife.  Hiking trail from parking area.  Great place to observe variety of woodland birds and mammals.  Trail through old growth cypress forest along old Black Bayou channel.

13. REELFOOT WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA SOUTH.  Also an excellent wildlife drive.  When the end of the road is reached, a walking trail begins.  The trail is an old road that is closed to vehicles, and it goes through old fields and large stands of bottom land timber.  It ends at Don-ald-son Ditch, which connects two major portions of Reelfoot Lake.

14.  KEYSTONE HIKING TRAIL.  The only hiking trail along shoreline of Reelfoot Lake.  Old growth cypress and hardwood timber.  Excellent birding in spring.

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