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Rhea Springs Day Use area is located on Watts Bar Reservoir on the Piney River at mile 3.3L (Tennessee River 532.5R) in Rhea County, Tennessee. The Day Use area is located off of Rhea Springs Road in Spring City, Tennessee. It includes approximately 30.06 acres and 1,837.14 feet of shoreline. The site has one bathhouse, 42 picnic tables, one 6'x35' long fishing pier, a 20 space parking lot and paved circle drive.
HOW TO GET THERE
Located North East of Spring City, TN in Rhea County. From Chattanooga, take Highway 27 North to Spring City, Turn right Vanns Creek Road, turn left at the stop sign onto Toestring Valley Road, go about 3 miles and turn right on Rhea Springs Road. Take Rhea Springs Road all the way to the end until you see the lake.
PET FRIENDLY NOTES
Pets will love this recreation area! Take them for a walk along the lake and enjoy a picnic lunch, too!
RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Swimming, Fishing, Boating, Camping
Located North East of Spring City, TN in Rhea County. From Chattanooga, take Highway 27 North to Spring City, Turn right Vanns Creek Road, turn left at the stop sign onto Toestring Valley Road, go about 3 miles and turn right on Rhea Springs Road. Take Rhea Springs Road all the way to the end until you see the lake.
The only reason I don't give 5 stars is because they don't have hook ups or a dump station. Other than that, this is one of my FAVORITE places to go. Leon Locke runs a tight ship and it shows!
Leon from the Parks and Recreation came by and was an amazing soul, very helpful, polite and concise.
He did explains that the park used to be free camping, but is not free anymore.
$22 for out of county visitors.
Beautiful free camping spot. We stayed for 13 days due to loving it so much! Free hot showers, picnic table at site, garbage removal. We kayaked every day. Only negative was hearing the echo of generators from across the water and a camper parked in the area by road where they let their 2 dogs tied up outside barking, but the owners were not there. They just left them there. They would come by every other day and just left them out there by themselves. That was frustrating. We did alert the park employees. They were great people! Cannot wait to stay again.
Beautiful, quiet, and clean. Not too crowded in the middlenof the week. Nice bathhouse. Can pull your boat right up to your campsite.
We had a wonderful time. We visited nearby Spring City for their fall festival also. Nice area. We will be back.
