Lots of stuff to see in Nashville. The Belle Meade Mansion is kind of neat. Jack Daniels in Lynchburg is kind of commercialized but fun too.
It’s not Delaware or Rhode Island, fer Pete’s sake.
Where will you be?
If you get close to Lynchburg, the Jack Daniels distillery is well worth a visit.
Go see the Pantheon in Nashville.
Beale Street Memphis
This part of the mountains are spectacular and the wooden fume is awesome:
Also, you could check out some of the dams on the Tennessee River.
Also, there are thousands of caves and caverns.
Rock City is quintessential “destination” in Chattanooga.
Also, Bea’s Restaurant in Chattanooga is awesome:
Also, tons of Civil War sites to visit along the Tennessee River.
World famous barbeque in Memphis.
This week you can go cross county skiing or snowshoeing. Or maybe ice fishing.
“I know to visit Elvis’s Mausoleum, but I won’t pay top price because there is no body to view.”
This has to be one of the most morbid comments I have ever read hear about going to a tourist destination. Do they actually charge to see his grave site?
Shiloh Battlefield
The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga as well as the stuff on Lookout Mountain (Rock City, Ruby Falls, the Incline) after the snow melts (they had 6 inches fall in the area - not good for a place with darn few snowplows). Great Smokey Mountains NP is neat too (but may need to wait for snow to be plowed). Nashville - the Grand Ole Opry and other music related places. If you drive down, stop at one of the visitor centers - there’s tons of info there.
Clingman’s Dome, if it’s open.
if you like boating and water sports, fishing, hunting...naw i hear there’s an ice age right now up by kentucky lake.
There are some good suggestions already, but I will throw out a few more. If you are in Nashville, you might consider The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s home. James K. Polk’s home is in Columbia, less than an hour southeast of Nashville. I would also suggest the atrium in the Opryland Hotel. My favorite restaurant in Nashville is Demos’. There are fancier places, but it’s the only place I know that serves a great steak with a side of incredible spaghetti.
Casey Jones Village in Jackson (on the interstate between Memphis and Nashville) is a quaint and popular attraction.
If you enjoy nature, on the east end of the state you can go to the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, one of the most beautiful places on earth. Fall Creek Falls has one of the tallest waterfalls east of the Rockies and other falls as well. Reelfoot Lake in West TN is a unique swampy lake created by a earthquakes in 1811-1812. Nearby is Boyettes, a legendary catfish place and if you are lucky, you may see bald eagles.
If you are in Memphis you should get bbq at either Central Barbeque or try the dry ribs (get a side order of red beans and rice, too) at The Rendezvous. If you like music, you might enjoy the Rock N Soul museum and the Stax Museum of American Soul. And then there’s Beale Street where you can hear modern blues every day. If weather permits, you might enjoy the Memphis Zoo. It is considered one of the two or three best zoos in the country. If you enjoy art, check out the Dixon Gallery and Gardens and maybe the Brooks Museum.
I can think of lots more. It just depends on what you are interested in.
Point Park Civil War battlefield on Lookout Mountain or perhaps go underground to see the Ruby Falls cave waterfall.
I did a one week trip in TN area in November and loved it.
Nashville: Opryland, Hermitage
Franklin: Carter House battlefield
Counce (near MS border): Shiloh battlefield
Huntsville AL: Space Center and War Veterans Museum
Chattanooga: Chickamauga battlefield
Murfreesboro: Stones River battlefield
People were great. Talked a lot about Southern food, guns and football.
David Crockett’s birthplace in Limestone, eastern TN.
The Nolichucky River that runs right alongside is sort of hypnotic, especially in late winter/early spring.
A good selection of Crockett and Alamo literature in their library, alongside rifles, buckskins and history.
Sort of out of the way, but very satisfying for me as a big fan of early American history.
Right now you might shovel my driveway..
I’m snowed in again...
If you're going to travel to Tenn., "...you have to promise not to be an asshole". (The Wanderers, 1979)
When I was a little boy, my mom took me to Tennessee for a vacation. I think she was trying to get away from psycho husband for a bit, so that’s where we went.
It was one of the best times I ever had. We went to Gatlinburg, which was awesome as well as Chatanooga.
We saw Ruby Falls which was quite lovely but a bit boring, and we also went to an underground gave that we toured in a boat. I remember there was blind catfish in it.
We went to place called Rock City which was a park that I initially thought would be boring, who wants to see a bunch of rocks, but those rocks turned out to be mountain skyscrapers, and it was just amazing.
But the best times I had there was just riding on horses on some mountain trails with a guide, though apparently this killed my mom’s back, and stopping off to swim on some random mountain creek that was absolutely gorgeous and freezing cold.
This stream left the biggest impression on me as I most got sucked over a good sized water fall when I got stuck in its pull. There was a guy cliff diving in the pool below the falls, apparently the water was that deep.
It is truly a lovely place with endless things to do, especially if you love the outdoors.