Tim Pharis was officially welcomed to the Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park manager position on Wednesday by Tennessee State Park personnel and park namesake former Sen. Lamar Alexander.
Rocky Fork State Park was officially designated as a state park in 2012 and was opened in 2015. It became the Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park in 2019, after former Gov. Bill Haslam named the park in honor of Alexander.
âEvery now and then amidst the political controversy that we see on television, people get together to do a good thing, and this is a good example of that,â Alexander said of the parkâs creation.