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Every WMA, state park and public access area, with dates from the 2026-27 hunting regulations.

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Statewide seasons:

  • Archery: Sep 26 – Oct 30, Nov 2–6
  • Young Sportsman: Oct 31 – Nov 1, Jan 9–10
  • Muzzleloader: Nov 7–20
  • Gun: Nov 21 – Jan 3

Legal weapons: Shotguns with a single solid ball or slugs, centerfire rifles and handguns, muzzleloaders .36 cal. or larger, air guns .35 cal. or larger, and archery equipment. Straight-walled cartridge rifles only on private land.

Open for deer on Oct 8

A

AEDC and Woods Reservoir Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only. Sign-in required.

Alpine Mountain

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

B

Bark Camp Barrens

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Barkley WMA - Unit I

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Barkley WMA - Unit II

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

All of Barkley WMA except Unit I.

Bean Switch Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Bear Hollow Mountain WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Beason Creek

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Hardin County, 460 acres.

Beaver Dam Creek WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Beech River WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Big Cypress Tree State Natural Area

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Big Sandy WMA (Gin Creek)

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Black Bayou Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Blackburn Fork

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Southeastern Jackson County, 600 acres, west of Hwy 135, north of Landford Hill Rd, east of Seven Knobs Rd and south of Daniel Hill Lane.

Bogota WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Bridgestone/Firestone Centennial Wilderness

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Bridgestone/Firestone Centennial Wilderness - Big Bottom Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Browntown WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Buffalo Springs WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

C

C. M. Gooch WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Camden WMA - Unit I

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Camden WMA - Unit II

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Catoosa WMA

Archery, through Oct 11.

Catoosa WMA - Crooked Fork Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Morgan County, 1,600 acres; access points on Heidel Rd and Heartland Rd in Wartburg.

Catoosa WMA - Pine Orchard Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Morgan County, 1,114 acres; I-40 Airport Rd. exit, the parts of Catoosa WMA south of Pine Orchard Rd and east of White Oak Rd in Oakdale.

Cedar Hill Swamp

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Chambers Creek

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Charlotte Ann Finnell Neal WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Cheatham Lake - Pardue Pond Refuge and Dyson Ditch Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Cheatham Lake WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cheatham WMA

Archery, through Oct 23.

Chickamauga WMA - Candies Creek Upland Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

WMA property east of Candies Creek and west of Lower River Road.

Chickamauga WMA - Candies Creek, Johnson Bottoms, Rogers Creek and Yellow Creek Units

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Chickamauga WMA - Cottonport, Washington Ferry, Shelton Bottoms and Other Units

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cottonport, Washington Ferry, Shelton Bottoms, Mud Creek, New Bethal, Moon Island, Goodfield Creek, Gillespie Bend, Ledford Island, Agency Creek, Sugar Creek and South Mouse Creek units.

Chickamauga WMA - Soddy Creek and Sale Creek Units

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Chickasaw State Forest

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Colonel Forrest V. Durand

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cordell Hull Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cordell Hull WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cordell Hull WMA - Defeated Creek Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

The area of Defeated Creek from the main river channel to the Corps of Engineers boundary along Defeated Creek, excluding Defeated Creek Recreational Area.

Cove Creek WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cypress Pond Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

E

Eagle Creek WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Eagle Lake Refuge - Bomprezzi Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Edgar Evins State Park

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Ernest Rice, Sr. WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

F

Flintville Hatchery

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Foothills WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), buck only.

Forks of the River WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Fort Ridge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Fourth Fractional Township

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

G

Gray's Creek

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

H

Haley-Jaqueth WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Happy Hollow

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Hickman County, 1,800 acres, off Hwy 50 near Only.

Harmon Creek WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Harp

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Hart's Mill

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Hatchie River WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

New this season. A 6,000-acre portion from Highway 100 to about one river-mile downstream of the Estanaula boat ramp, and a 1,000-acre portion on the McNairy and Hardeman county line south of Highway 57. Access is limited; see TWRA's interactive map.

Haynes Bottom WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Headwaters

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Cannon County, 600 acres in 4 parcels near Woodbury.

Henderson Island Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

On Douglas Reservoir between river miles 42 and 44.

Hick Hill WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Hickory Flats WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Hop-In Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Horns Bluff Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

J

Jackson Swamp

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Jarrell Switch Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Joachim Bible Waterfowl Refuge Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

The portion of Lick Creek Bottoms WMA between Murray Bridge Road, Bibles Chapel Road, and South Mohawk Road.

John Tully WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

K

Keyes-Harrison WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Kyker Bottoms Refuge

Archery, through Oct 30.

Kyles Ford WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

L

Laurel Hill WMA

Archery, through Oct 15. Bonus deer hunt.

Laurel Hill WMA - Shields Farm Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Lick Creek Bottoms

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Lick Creek WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Luper Mountain

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Luper Mountain - Lonestar Mountain Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

M

MTSU WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Maness Swamp Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Maple Springs

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

McGlothin-Largen

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Roane County, 112 acres.

Mingo Swamp

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Moss Island

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Mt. Roosevelt WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

N

Natchez Trace State Forest

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

New Hope WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Nolichucky WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Normandy WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

North Cherokee WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Along the Tennessee-North Carolina state line north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

North Chickamauga Creek WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays only.

Hixson, Lake Carolyn, Rogers, Sutton, Thrasher Bottoms, Vandergriff, Poe Branch and Varner units.

North Chickamauga Creek WMA - Patton Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

North Cumberland WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

O

Obion River WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Obion River WMA - Maness Swamp Hunting Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

North of State Hwy. 445, bordered by the South Fork and Middle Fork of the Obion rivers as marked.

Old Hickory Lock 5 Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

The rules here are for the part north of the Cumberland River; the south part has its own listing.

Old Hickory WMA - Unit I

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Highway 109 upstream to river mile 267, excluding Lock 5 Refuge.

Old Hickory WMA - Unit II

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Hwy. 109 downstream to Old Hickory Dam.

Old Hickory WMA - Unit III

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

From river mile 267 upstream to the old Lock 6 site at river mile 281.

Owl Hollow Mill WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

P

Paint Rock

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Parker Branch

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Pea Ridge WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 23).

Percy Priest WMA - Unit I

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays only.

Near La Vergne, north of Smyrna Air Base, 1,408 acres.

Percy Priest WMA - Unit II

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Perry Switch

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Madison County, 210 acres, southeast of Jackson off of Deep Gap Rd.

Pickett State Forest

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

R

Rankin WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Reelfoot WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

S

Sergeant Lee Russell Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Carroll County, 570 acres, west side of Hwy. 77 (Gordon Brown Hwy.).

Shelton Ferry WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

Skinner Mountain

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

South Fork Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Spring Creek

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Standing Stone State Forest

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

T

Tellico Lake WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Monroe and Loudon counties, 8,000 acres.

Tellico Lake WMA - Chota Refuge Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

The portion from LTRM 26.0 upstream to the Hiwassee-Alcoa powerline at LTRM 29.7.

The Boils

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Thorny Cypress

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Dyer County, 3,100 acres. Tract I between Hwy. 104 and I-155; Tract II between Boothspoint Rd. and White Lake Refuge.

Three Rivers WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Three Rivers WMA - East Unit

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Tie Camp WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Tigrett WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Tull Bottom

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Chester County, 1,184 acres, east of Henderson along the South Fork of the Forked Deer River off Hwy 200.

Tumbleweed WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

W

Watts Bar WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Primarily on islands and access areas on Watts Bar Lake.

Watts Bar WMA - Iron Hill Island, Long Island and Thief Neck Island Units

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30), archery only.

West Sandy WMA (Springville Bottoms)

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

White Lake Refuge

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

White Oak WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Williamsport WMA

Archery, through Oct 23.

Wolf River WMA - Unit I

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

The portion south of Hwy. 57.

Wolf River WMA - Unit II

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

The portion north of Hwy. 57.

Y

Yanahli WMA

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30).

Quota and special hunts

You need to be drawn or eligible for these.

Cordell Hull WMA - Wheelchair-Bound Hunter Only Zone

Follows the statewide season (archery through Oct 30). Only for mobility-impaired hunters.

The old "Corps of Engineers Roaring River Campground" area (north of Hwy. 135, north of Roaring River, south and east of Hwy. 85 and west of Old Roaring River Iron Bridge Road).

Prentice Cooper State Forest

Muzzleloader, through Oct 10. Quota hunt, 250 hunters drawn. Bonus deer hunt.

Nothing listed for deer on Oct 8

No areas match “”.

Statewide seasons

Public areas may set their own dates, listed above. Areas that follow the statewide season are open on these dates.

Deer
Archery: Sep 26 – Oct 30, Nov 2–6
Young Sportsman: Oct 31 – Nov 1, Jan 9–10
Muzzleloader: Nov 7–20
Gun: Nov 21 – Jan 3
Bear
Zone 1 with hounds: Oct 3–5, Oct 10–11, Nov 9–16, Nov 30 – Dec 16
Zone 1 archery: Sep 26 – Oct 23
Zone 1 Young Sportsman: Oct 31 – Nov 1
Zone 1 gun: Nov 21–24
Zone 2 with hounds: Oct 3–18, Nov 2–6, Nov 30 – Dec 15
Zone 2 archery: Sep 26 – Oct 23
Zone 2 Young Sportsman: Oct 31 – Nov 1
Zone 2 gun: Nov 21–24
Zone 3 with hounds: Oct 3–4, Oct 10–16, Nov 2–6, Nov 30 – Dec 13, Dec 31 – Jan 3
Zone 3 archery: Sep 26 – Oct 23
Zone 3 Young Sportsman: Oct 31 – Nov 1
Zone 3 gun: Nov 21–24
Zone 4 archery: Sep 26 – Oct 23
Zone 5 archery: Sep 26 – Oct 23
Transitional zone archery: Sep 26 – Oct 23
Turkey
Fall archery: Sep 26 – Oct 30, Nov 2–6
Fall shotgun: Oct 17–30
Spring Young Sportsman: Mar 27–28
Spring: Apr 3 – May 16
Dove
Sep 1–28, Oct 10 – Nov 1, Dec 8 – Jan 15
Ducks
Sep 12–16, Nov 28–29, Dec 5 – Jan 31
Geese
Sep 1–20, Oct 10–22, Nov 28–29, Dec 5 – Feb 14
Teal
Sep 12–16, Nov 28–29, Dec 5 – Jan 31
Quail
Nov 7 – Jan 15
Rabbit
Nov 7 – Feb 28
Squirrel
Aug 22 – Mar 15, May 8 – Jun 13
Grouse
Oct 10 – Feb 28
Woodcock
Nov 14 – Dec 6, Jan 10–31
Furbearers
Nov 20 – Feb 28
Raccoon
Sep 18 – Mar 15

Dates are copied from the Tennessee hunting regulations. Seasons, closures and area rules change during the year, so confirm in the guide before you hunt.

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