Top outdoor Activities

Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

The city’s elegant longtime home for the arts offers attractions all year round, from quality art exhibitions in the estate’s museum to a woodland sculpture trail and the annual Holiday LIGHTS extravaganza.

Shelby Bottoms Greenway and Natural Area

Here, hundreds of riverside acres in what would otherwise be prime residential real estate are set aside forever as a wildlife habitat and gathering places for family barbecues, exercise, birding and more. Check out the Nature Center for educational programming.

United Street Tours

This tour company informs visitors — and unaware locals — about Nashville’s impressive and extensive Black history and culture. It offers three different walking tours, each 90 minutes long. There’s a Black history option, as well as tours devoted to the civil rights movement and neighborhood diversity.

Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park

This tree-lined park and promenade boasts a 200-foot granite map of the state, a Pathway of History measured in 2001-like monoliths, a World War II memorial, a working carillon, and a fountain plaza that fills in the summer with children splashing in the soaring jets of water.

Arrington Vineyards

Thirty-five minutes south of downtown, not only can you explore the countryside while sipping on some locally made wine, but you can also bring a picnic, order food and attend concerts.*

Gray Line of Tennessee

See the sights with Gray Line of Tennessee, which offers a bevy of tours to get you wellacquainted with Music City. Tours cover general sightseeing, celebrity homes, music museums and Civil War history. *

There’s no better way to explore Music City than on a pedal assist electric BCycle.