Description
The top 75 places to visit in Tennessee, ranked with the most stunning first: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Ruby Falls deep inside Lookout Mountain, Fall Creek Falls, the full-size Parthenon in Nashville, Gatlinburg, the Lost Sea, Graceland and more. Every stop is pinned on a 3D satellite map so you can see exactly where it is in the state.
Along the way you'll find hidden gems most visitors miss, like the Twin Arches, Virgin Falls, Cumberland Caverns, Bald River Falls, Ozone Falls, Old Stone Fort and the Victorian village of Rugby, plus a true "did you know?" fact at every stop, from the circle of oak from the Ryman's stage that Opry performers still stand on to the Barkley Marathons, the brutal race in Frozen Head State Park that only twenty runners have ever finished. Perfect for planning a Tennessee road trip.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 #1 Great Smoky Mountains National Park
0:37 #2 Ruby Falls
1:00 #3 Fall Creek Falls State Park
1:23 #4 The Parthenon
1:49 #5 Gatlinburg
2:13 #6 The Lost Sea (hidden gem)
2:37 #7 Graceland
3:04 #8 Rock Island State Park
3:26 #9 Twin Arches (hidden gem)
3:47 #10 Lookout Mountain
4:11 #11 Dollywood
4:36 #12 Cades Cove
5:01 #13 Mount Le Conte
5:25 #14 Country Music Hall of Fame
5:47 #15 Ryman Auditorium
6:12 #16 Cherohala Skyway
6:39 #17 Burgess Falls State Park
7:03 #18 Sun Studio
7:29 #19 Reelfoot Lake (hidden gem)
7:55 #20 Ocoee River
8:22 #21 Foothills Parkway
8:49 #22 National Civil Rights Museum
9:14 #23 Savage Gulf State Park
9:36 #24 Roan Mountain (hidden gem)
10:02 #25 Tennessee Aquarium
10:28 #26 Virgin Falls (hidden gem)
10:50 #27 Grand Ole Opry
11:15 #28 Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge (hidden gem)
11:41 #29 Cumberland Caverns (hidden gem)
12:03 #30 Memphis Pyramid
12:29 #31 Cummins Falls State Park
12:54 #32 Fiery Gizzard State Park
13:18 #33 Walnut Street Bridge
13:45 #34 Oak Ridge (hidden gem)
14:11 #35 Discovery Park of America
14:36 #36 Bald River Falls (hidden gem)
14:55 #37 Cheekwood
15:13 #38 Sunsphere
15:34 #39 Big River Crossing
15:57 #40 Shiloh National Military Park
16:23 #41 The Peabody Ducks
16:46 #42 The Hermitage
17:11 #43 Johnny Cash Museum
17:29 #44 Bristol Motor Speedway
17:54 #45 Stax Museum of American Soul Music
18:17 #46 Gaylord Opryland Resort
18:40 #47 Tennessee State Capitol
18:59 #48 Ozone Falls (hidden gem)
19:17 #49 Frozen Head State Park (hidden gem)
19:43 #50 Jonesborough
20:02 #51 Old Stone Fort (hidden gem)
20:25 #52 Radnor Lake State Park
20:50 #53 Titanic Museum
21:13 #54 Neyland Stadium
21:34 #55 Chattanooga Choo Choo
21:57 #56 Tuckaleechee Caverns
22:15 #57 Rhea County Courthouse
22:43 #58 Norris Dam
23:02 #59 Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
23:21 #60 Pinson Mounds (hidden gem)
23:40 #61 Dunbar Cave State Park (hidden gem)
24:06 #62 Museum of Appalachia
24:28 #63 Carnton
24:47 #64 Shelby Farms Park
25:07 #65 Stones River National Battlefield
25:32 #66 Rugby (hidden gem)
25:56 #67 National Museum of African American Music
26:20 #68 Cumberland Mountain State Park
26:43 #69 Red Clay State Historic Park
27:10 #70 Frist Art Museum
27:29 #71 Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park
27:55 #72 Fort Loudoun State Historic Park
28:22 #73 Fort Donelson National Battlefield
28:48 #74 James K. Polk Home
29:05 #75 Tina Turner Museum
SOURCES
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National Park Service (Great Smoky Mountains, Big South Fork, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Stones River, Fort Donelson, Natchez Trace Parkway, Manhattan Project NHP); U.S. Forest Service (Cherokee National Forest, Cherohala Skyway, Bald River Falls); TVA (Norris Dam)
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Tennessee State Parks and TDEC; Tennessee Encyclopedia; Tennessee State Museum and Capitol; USGS; American Battlefield Trust; American Whitewater; Smithsonian Institution Archives
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The official sites of each attraction (Ruby Falls, The Lost Sea, Graceland, Dollywood, Ryman, Grand Ole Opry, Country Music Hall of Fame, Sun Studio, Stax, Johnny Cash Museum, NMAAM, Frist, Cheekwood, Peabody, Discovery Park of America, Titanic Museum, Tennessee Aquarium, Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Museum of Appalachia, Bristol Motor Speedway, The Hermitage, Carnton, President James K. Polk Home, Historic Rugby, Tina Turner Museum, LeConte Lodge, Cumberland and Tuckaleechee Caverns)
PHOTO CREDITS
Every photo is credited on screen (photographer, source and license). Most are from Wikimedia Commons and Flickr under Creative Commons licenses (CC BY, CC BY-SA) or in the public domain; historic photos from the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
3D map: NASA Blue Marble; Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016); close-up aerial imagery: USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) via the USGS National Map; terrain: Mapzen/AWS Terrain Tiles; borders: U.S. Census Bureau; town names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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