This has to be the WORSE place in the U.S. Absolutely terrible!!
At Cumberland Mt. State Park, in Crossville, Tennessee, there are cabins. They are awful. Dirty. Even filthy. Smoke alarms don't have batteries. Beds are broken and mattresses are worn out. So are sofas--all tattered. The pine walls are covered with graffitti. Dust and cobwebs everywhere. Floors mopped with dirty water. In one cabin I stayed in, the toaster was on the floor. There was no electrical outlet nearby. Some of the outlets didn't have covers. The driveways leading through the cabins were dark as the security lights had burned out and no one cared. Blankets and towels worn to threads. Worse of all, there was no heat in the cabins. We stayed in December two different years and still no heat. Neighboring cabins had the same problem. As if it never occurred to the management that heat was necessary. Showers didn't work. Electrical cords hung from the ceiling. Nasty places. And as often as these issues were reported, even to the state management, nothing was done to correct them. As if the management didn't or couldn't understand. A curious thing is that this park reservation desk doesn't require a check-in. If you arrive after the office closes at 4:30 p.m., your key is left for you hanging outside the building on a nail! Imagine that any type of person, a criminal or a terrorist, could ask for a cabin, not be required to give a deposit or a credit card number--this is true!-- and just drop by in the dark of night for a key hanging on an outside wall, and leave in the same way! Talk about a threat to homeland security! The way the reservation system is set up, or actually NOT set up, anyone can call in to have a cabin held. This is a State Park and there's no required signature, no check-in, no check-out, no holds, no nothing, but a key left for any John Doe to spend the night. It's not safe. It's not safe because the security lights are out, because there's no batteries in the smoke alarms, because they are unsanitary, and mostly because any criminal or terrorist could come by and spend the night next to you, and no one in the Tennessee state park system would have their information until it was too late. Just mindless indeed! Not worth the trip or your life. I stayed a couple of times, and it never got better, only worse, and it was scary. The rangers were not too bright, either.
Don't go here.