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U.S. Forest Service · National Forest · Tennessee

Cherokee Purchase Unit

Here, none of the campgrounds take walk-ups.

1Campgrounds
1,500 ftElevation
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point queries at 1 of these 1 campgrounds

Where they are

1 of 1 mapped
Drawing the map
© OpenFreeMap · OpenStreetMap · Esri hillshade
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Oct 23, 2026

The campgrounds

1 campground
Katy BranchReservableCherokee Purchase Unit · TNSites from $751 group site1,500 ftdrinking watertoilets
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Oct 23, 2026

This land

measured from the nearest campground in the unit
Roadless
Sampson Mountain Addition3,064 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area

Camping here is a stake in what happens to it. More Than Just Parks tracks the threats and the comment windows.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Cherokee Purchase Unit’s campgrounds sit in one congressional district. These members vote on the laws that decide what happens to this land.

Diana Harshbarger, official portrait
Diana Harshbarger (R)TN 1st · 1 campground · grade F
Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score
Unit: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) land units
Source: campground records from RIDB, NPS, USFS EDW and BLM, unified by CAMPANAC, refreshed nightly