Five Upper Cumberland State Parks achieve platinum status in the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Go Green With Us Program.
Those parks include Burgess Falls, Pickett CCC Memorial State Park, Standing Stone State Park, Rock Island State Park and Sgt. Alvin C. York State Park. The evaluation process reviews parks’ efforts in sustainability categories including energy efficiency, maintenance and hospitality, recycling and waste reduction, among others.
32 parks out of hte state’s 57 achieved the status, which is the highest ranking in the program.
