GET OUTDOORS ... THE PARK IS YOURS!
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April Hikes & Programs
All ranger-led hikes and programs are now listed on the Tennessee State Parks Website.
Please bookmark that page to get info about all the latest ranger-led hikes and programs!
APRIL 12-13-14, RAIN OR SHINE!
Still time to register for hikes, workshops, speakers and activities at Trails & Trilliums!
Trails and Trilliums 2019 is only one week away! This year’s festival, presented by Lodge Cast Iron, offers 26 expertly guided hikes, 16 nature-themed speakers and  workshops, an expanded native plant sale, and family-oriented activities for the kids, plus the popular Wine & Wildflowers celebration on Friday evening and the new Trail Weekend Hootenanny on Saturday night.
Hikes will be offered all weekend -- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hike capacities are limited — sign up now to reserve your spot!
 Talks and workshops (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) will be offered at the DuBose Conference Center. Sign up here for sessions you'll enjoy!
On Saturday and Sunday, there will also be garden-related vendors offering outdoor sculpture, worm castings, produce, garden accessories, botanical prints, nature books and cards, and the greatly expanded Native Plant Sale! Author Mary Priestley will also be discussing and signing copies of her new book, “Sewanee Wildflowers in Watercolor.”
 A wide array of FREE Children’s Activities will be offered on Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm at the South Cumberland State Park Visitor Center, made possible with the generosity of Doug Ferris and John D. Canale. Activities include a zipline and slack line, the Critter Castle, pioneer re-enactments, candle-making, a campfire, garden demonstrations and more!
The always-popular Wine & Wildflowers celebration and Friends' fund-raiser is on Friday evening, 5:30-7:00 pm at the Monteagle Inn, presented by Tower Community Bank. Register today on the Trails and Trilliums website.
 On Saturday, check out the NEW Trail Weekend Hootenanny, starting at 4:00 pm at Baggentoss Farms in Tracy City. Co-sponsored by the Friends of South Cumberland and the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance, the Hootenanny will raise funds for the new connector trail between the Visitor Center and the Mountain Goat Trail.
All proceeds help fund the initiatives of the Friends of South Cumberland, working on behalf of the Park.
 Volunteers Still Needed to
Help Out at Trails & Trilliums
Please help us out and give back to the Park you love!
We still need volunteers to help out for just a couple of hours with a wide variety of tasks during Trails and Trilliums weekend!
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, June 22
for the Friends Annual Meeting and Family Fun Day
DETAILS TO COME!
 Shop and support the Park
at the same time!
When you shop at smile.amazon.com, Amazon donates a portion of your purchase directly to the Friends of South Cumberland State Park. Click the logo below to begin, and bookmark that page as your Amazon starting point in order to designate the Friends as your preferred recipient!
Be a Part of Tennessee's first-ever BioBlitz!
This year, Tennessee State Parks is conducting its first-ever “BioBlitz” using a free smartphone application, iNaturalist. Park visitors can upload photos of plants and animals using the app, helping identify the species. According to Nancy Garden, State Chapter Coordinator for the Tennessee Naturalist Program, any observation taken from within a state park will be automatically included in the BioBlitz and will help build a statewide inventory. The BioBlitz began January 1 and runs through December 31, 2019. The goal is to log 10,000 observations! To participate in the BioBlitz, or just to track the progress of Tennessee's efforts, visit the Tennessee State Parks page on the iNaturalist website.
The Friends are now on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter!
Be among the first to follow us and share your adventures in the Park
on these new Friends of South Cumberland pages:
Join or renew your Friends membership today!
Now it’s easier than every to join or renew your Friends membership online! Just visit the Membership page of the Friends website. If you’re renewing, there will be a link on that page for current Friends members to use. If you’re a current member and follow that link, it will ask you to enter your email and password to log into the Member Services area of the website. If you have not yet set up your password, enter the email address you believe we have on file for you, and then click the “forgot password” link, which will allow you to set up a password to access your info in our system. Once you’re set up, it will be much easier to do future membership renewals; register for Friends’ events; make gifts or donations; and any other kind of transaction you’d like to make in support of the Park!
Add our new address to your Contact list!
The Friends now offer online Member Services functions (click here to learn more)! Please add FriendsOfSouthCumberland@gmail.com to your device’s contacts or address book. This email address is the official address for communications from the Friends (including TrailTracker!), so please add it to your contacts to be sure important messages from us aren’t landing in your junk mail folder by accident.
Why should you join and support the Friends?
Now protecting more than 30,000 acres, South Cumberland is the largest State Park in Tennessee. Although this is great news, more land, and more visitors, creates new and urgent unmet needs for the park. New trails must be built, and existing trails must be maintained or upgraded. New and expanded parking areas, restrooms, camping and picnic facilities, and directional signage are needed. Invasive pests, like the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, and invasive plants must be controlled. Guided hikes, seminars and historical re-enactments, including programs for area school children, must be prepared and delivered. And, the work of conserving additional environmentally-significant lands is far from complete. By becoming a member of the Friends, you can help insure that South Cumberland will always be a safe, well-maintained and amazing place to experience world-class natural beauty!
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Q&A: HOW TO SET YOUR FRIENDS MEMBER SERVICES PASSWORD IF THE EMAIL YOU RECEIVED SAYS “LINK IS EXPIRED”
Q: The email I received from the Friends has a link to activate membership accounts and set up a password. However, when I clicked the link the message came back that the link is expired. What should I do?
A: The link has a "time out" on it for security reasons; if it's not opened within a couple of hours after you receive the email, it "expires". However, if you click on that link, in the email, it will take you to the screen where it says it expired, and on that same page there is also a link titled Request a New Verification or Reset Password link. Click on that, and it will ask for your email address. Enter your address and then the system will email you a fresh link or code that will allow you to get into the system and set up your account password.
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