A hiker in a Tennessee state park died after picking up a rattlesnake that bit him in what was a rare fatality arising from a snake bite, authorities said Friday.

A tourist was walking down a trail in Savage Gulf State Park in Tennessee when a rattlesnake believed to be a timber ...

Matthew Griffith of the Grundy County Emergency Management Agency said a Timber rattlesnake is believed to have been involved ...

The victim, who was not identified, was hiking at the Savage Gulf State Park -- about 60 miles northwest of Chattanooga -- ...

The unidentified male hiker, who was in Tennessee’s Savage Gulf State Park on Aug. 8, picked up what was likely a Timber rattlesnake, which has “venom potent enough to kill a human,” but whose “bites ...

GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVC) — A hiker at Savage Gulf State Park in Grundy County was bitten by a snake on the trail and ...

A hiker in Tennessee tragically died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake at Savage Gulf State Park. According to ...

The man died in a local hospital after being bitten on the hand by what officials speculate was a timber rattlesnake ...

The hiker, who was not identified, was about a half-mile down the trail at Savage Gulf Park when he was bitten.

A hiker died at Savage Gulf State Park in south-central Tennessee after he was bitten on the hand by a venomous rattlesnake.