Description: This is a joint outing sponsored by TNPS and TCWP. All are welcome. We will have an excellent opportunity to see spring wildflowers. The first mile is ideal for […]

Speaker Erin Manzitto-Tripp is co-author of the "Field Guide to the Lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park". The GSMNP is home to 909 recognized species of lichens, more than […]

The Southwest Tennessee Community College Science Club will host an Earth Day Dash & Expo on April 20th. TNPS will have a table to sell books and provide membership information.

Trails & Trilliums​ is a weekend-long naturalist rally, put on by the Friends of South Cumberland State Parks and sponsored by Lodge Cast Iron. Headquartered at the Beersheba Springs Assembly […]

Description: This is sponsored by TNPS and TCWP. A wonderful place for spring wildflowers like spreading rockcress and wild hyacinth. If there is interest and time, we could take a […]

Information and registration for the Great Smoky Mountain Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage are available at: https://www.wildflowerpilgrimage.org/2023-pilgrimage.html

Description: This is sponsored by TNPS and TCWP. We should be able to see an inconspicuous orchid, Wister’s coralroot, among many other spring wildflowers. Some of these flowers are growing […]

The TNPS 2023 Annual Conference will be held in conjunction with the Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Festival Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6, at Cedars of Lebanon State Park. […]

Please join us in 2023 for the Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival, the evening of May 5 and  all day May 6, 2023 at Cedars of Lebanon State Park. […]

Description: This is sponsored by TNPS and TCWP. We will start at Peavine Rd. and hike along Daddy’s Creek staying mostly up on the bluffs. At the halfway point the […]