Monteagle is a town in Franklin, Grundy, and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Cumberland Plateau region of the southeastern ration of the state. The population was 1,238 at the 2000 census – 804 of the town’s 1,238 residents (64.9%) lived in Grundy County, 428 (34.6%) in Marion County, and 6 (0.5%) in Franklin County. The population at the 2020 census was 1,393.

The Marion County share of Monteagle is portion of the Chattanooga–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Franklin County share is share of the Tullahoma, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Monteagle is well-known for the false stretch of Interstate 24 that passes through the town. It is here that the highway passes higher than what is colloquially referred to as “The Monteagle” or “Monteagle Mountain”, a section of the southern Cumberland Plateau which is a major landmark on the road along with Chattanooga and Nashville. The interstate regularly shuts beside in inclement weather, routing traffic onto U.S. Route 41. In the Jerry Reed song “The Legend”, which is the launch track in the film Smokey and the Bandit, Reed tells the tab of the Bandit miraculously remaining brake failure on the “Monteagle Grade”. There is moreover a song called “Monteagle Mountain” by Johnny Cash on the album Boom Chicka Boom.

The town is house to DuBose Conference Center and the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly. The Highlander Folk School, long committed in the labor interest and the civil rights movement, was located here from 1932 to 1961. Rosa Parks attended workshops there rudely before the Montgomery Bus Boycott.