[4] Grundy County has a rich history and today is the home of a vast recreational wilderness known as the South Cumberland State Park which offers extensive hiking, camping, and rock climbing.

Most of Grundy County is atop the Cumberland Plateau averaging a height of around 1,800 feet above sea level.

Visitors to the Savage Gulf are amazed by the beautiful views and extensive hiking trails.

Today many people, on their way to Fiery Gizzard and Foster Falls, will pass through the quaint and friendly town of Tracy City.

Tracy City is home to the Grundy County Historical Society which is located in the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company Library & Research Center and is staffed daily by many local residents who assist visitors with tours of the museum and offer assistance for genealogical research.

The park offers swimming, picnic areas and a lengthy paved road used by runners and walkers.

The lake is bordered by a honey comb of Coke Ovens that remain from when coal was mined in the area.

The business district of Tracy City was nearly destroyed when ten buildings were wiped out by an intentional blaze on April 27, 1935.

The Grundy County Times was set ablaze in 1917, and the Herald office suffered an explosion in 1967 and was destroyed by arson in 1978.

In the 1960s and 1970s, four dynamite blasts destroyed or damaged waterworks, another a lumber yard, and another a doctor's clinic.

[7] Grundy County contains much of the Fiery Gizzard Trail, renowned for scenic beauty and diversity.

[8] Wonder Cave is located on the north side of Layne's Cove at the foot of the Cumberland Plateau.

It was discovered in 1897 by Robert A. Nelson, Melville Anderson, and Will Fitzgerald, who crawled into a small opening next to a large, well-known spring.

Grundy County was also won by Democratic U.S. senate candidates Bob Clement in 2002 and Harold Ford Jr. in 2006, both of whom lost.