Rogersville, Tennessee Recreation
Parks, golfing, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, biker-friendly, birdwatching, geocaching...
Rogersville residents and businesses enjoy the very best life has to offer. With three parks right in city limits and plenty else to do and see in the surrounding area, Rogersville offers a variety of recreational opportunities.Recreation
352 Guntown Road
Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact Person(s): Brent Owens
Phone / FAX: 423-272-1477
331 Park Blvd., Rogersville, TN 37857
Phone / FAX: (423) 272-2545
Rogersville City Park is the owned and operated by the Town of Rogersville and contains a public pool, four children's playgrounds, two outdoor basketball courts, four outdoor tennis courts, numerous picnic shelters, three large, lighted pavilions (two with restroom facilities), an amphitheater, a lighted stage area, six lighted baseball/softball fields, the town's soccer fields, a duck pond, a fitness trail, two walking trails, and skate park.
The Park is the site of a traveling midway carnival in the late spring and early fall, the Rogersville Fourth of July Celebration, and the town-sponsored holiday festival of lights.
Phone / FAX: 423-357-8110
One of the parks in the Church Hill area is a lush and beautiful Laurel Run Park. Set along the placid Holston River, Laurel Run Park is operated by Hawkins County as a municipal park.
Ceded to the county following the conclusion of filming for the 1984 movie "The River," staring Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek, the park includes river access, a mountain creek, playground equipment, tennis courts, softball and baseball fields, and more. The free park is open year round. Picnic shelters are available for reservation between April 1 and October 31. A small fee is required for reservation of shelters. Call 423-357-8110 from 3:00-6:00pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for more information.
200 Crockett St., Rogersville, TN 37857
Phone / FAX: (423) 272-1961
Located in the center of Rogersville, Crockett Spring Park is a joint project of the Town and the Rogersville Heritage Association. The park is the site of Rogersville's first settlement, and the tavern and home built by founder Joseph Rogers is preserved on the site.
The Park also encompasses the Rogers Cemetery, where Joseph and Mary Rogers, many of their children, and the grandparents of Davy Crockett are buried.
In addition to these historic interests, the site of Rogersville's first public swimming pool is here, as is a gazebo built to commemorate the bicentennials of both the Town (1789) and the State (1796).
North Hasson Street, Rogersville, TN
Rogersville was home to an African-American college, Swift College, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the Swift Park, located off of North Hasson Street in the central part of the Town, commemorates the legacy of that institution. The park contains picnic shelters, two playgrounds, and basketball courts.
Cherokee Lake provides a wealth of recreational opportunities for the whole family. It is a reservoir that was created from the damming of the Holston River at the site of the (TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority's Cherokee Hydro-electric Dam in Jefferson County, TN. The lake offers approximately 400 miles of winding shoreline and roughly 28,780 acres of water surface. It is maintained by the TVA in cooperation with land owners and private and community organizations.
From the TVA site:
"Cherokee Reservoir attracts millions of recreational visitors each year. Along its shorelines are public access areas, county and municipal parks, commercial boat docks and resorts, a state park, and a state wildlife management area. There are many tent and trailer sites for campers.
Fishing is popular at Cherokee, and the reservoir’s fish population is very similar to that found in other east Tennessee reservoirs—black bass, sauger, walleye, crappie, various sunfish, and the usual rough-fish species."
Entertainment
East Main Street
P.O. Box 596
Rogersville, TN 37857
Contact Person(s): Linda Long
Phone / FAX: 423-921-0027
Park Boulevard
Rogersville, Tennessee 37857
Phone / FAX: 423-272-2545
Entertainment every Thursday night from 6:00-9:00.
Contact Person(s): Owners: Kathy & Larry Maysilles
Manager: Eric Buchanan
located in the Food City Mall
1287 E. Main Street
Rogersville, TN
423-921-0300 (show times)
423-921-0460 (office)
Email: Lmaysilles@earthlink.net
1410 E Main St.
Rogersville, TN
Phone / FAX: (423) 921-3190
Bowling and more
2415 Gap Creek Road
Bulls Gap, TN 37711
Contact Person(s): Vera Ann Myers
Phone / FAX: 423-235-4796
116 Hill Avenue
Surgoinsville, TN 37873
Contact Person(s): Johnny and Teresa Greer
Phone / FAX: 423-345-3372
Heritage Trails
A trail of painted quilt patterns.
http://www.vacationaqt.com/trail/county/hawkins-tn.htm
