Tennessee

The Volunteer State.

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

Presidential salute: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge
Birdsong Hollow, Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge

Listed under Mississippi where it is also located, the Natchez Trace Parkway (a National Park Service unit and an All-American Road – which is also in Alabama) includes the following sites in Tennessee: Meriwether Lewis Monument, Fall Hollow Trail, Tobacco Farm and Old Trace Drive, Jackson Falls, and Birdsong Hollow for a view of the iconic Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge.

Spooky! Bell Witch Cave in Adams, Robertson County

Honorable mention: Delta Queen Riverboat Hotel in Chattanooga

10. Tennessee caves: Lost Sea, Ruby Falls, and Tuckaleechee Caverns

9. State of Franklin Capitol in Town of Greenville, plus Roan Mountain State Park

8. Fall Creek Falls State Park

7. Andrew Jackson’s The Hermitage and the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

6. Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (NPS)

5. Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area

      • Shiloh National Military Park
      • Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
      • Stones River National Battlefield
      • Fort Donelson National Battlefield

4. Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Oak Ridge

3. Memphis

      • Beale Street
      • Sun Studio
      • National Civil Rights Museum – the Lorraine Motel
      • Cotton Row Historic District – Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange
      • Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum
      • Stax Museum of American Soul Music
      • Elvis Presley’s Graceland
      • Peabody Hotel – Peabody Ducks
The Jolly String Quartet
The Jolly String Quartet, Puckett’s, Franklin, Tennessee
Ryman Auditorium and the AT&T Building, Nashville
Ryman Auditorium and the AT&T Building, Nashville, Tennessee

2. Nashville

      • Music City – Broadway
      • Ryman Auditorium and The Grand Ole Opry
      • Music Row
      • Music City Walk of Fame and Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
      • Prince’s Hot Chicken
      • Fort Nashborough
      • Tennessee State Capitol
      • Franklin (small town gem)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (including part of the Appalachian Trail) – a World Heritage Site (shared with North Carolina)

      • Cades Cove
        1. John Oliver Cabin (0.5 miles)
        2. Primitive Baptist Church & Cemetery
        3. Cades Cove Methodist Church
        4. Cades Cove Missionary Baptist Church
        5. Elijah Oliver Place Trail (1.2 miles)
        6. Abrams Falls Trail (5.5 miles)
        7. John P Cable Grist Mill
        8. Henry Whitehead House
        9. Dan Lawson Cabin
        10. Tipton Place
        11. Carter Shield Cabin
        12. Ike Lequire Cemetery
      • Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
        1. Noah “Bud” Ogle Cabin (0.8 miles)
        2. Rainbow Falls Trail (5.4 miles – hard)
        3. Grotto Falls (2.6 miles)
        4. Baskins Creek Falls (3.0 miles)
        5. Jim Bales Place
        6. Ephraim Bales Place
        7. Alfred Reagan Tub Mill
        8. The Place of a Thousand Drips
      • Cataloochee & Big Creek
        1. Cataloochee Valley Overlook
        2. Will Messer Barn
        3. Palmer Chapel Methodist Church
        4. Beech Grove School
        5. Hiram Caldwell House
        6. Steve Woody House
        7. Jarvis Palmer House
        8. Little Cataloochee Trail (5.8 miles) – Jim Hannah Cabin, Little Cataloochee Baptist Church, & Cook Cabin
        9. Big Creek/Mouse Creek Falls (4.2 miles)
        10. Mount Stirling
      • Newfound Gap Road
        1. Chimney Tops (3.3 miles)
        2. Alum Cave Bluffs Trail (4.4 miles)
        3. Spruce-Fir Nature Trail (0.4 miles)
        4. Clingmans Dome Observation Tower Trail (1.2 miles) – Clingmans Dome
      • Oconaluftee
        1. Mountain Farm Museum
        2. Mingus Mill & Slave Cemetery