Tag: Tennessee
Take Five: Into the Deep
Take the plunge at these unique Southern scuba-diving destinations. Come face-to-face with West Indian manatees, explore the 120-foot-deep lake on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, and marvel at the northernmost coral reef system in the country.
Nashville Night & Day
With so much to see and hear and taste, it’s a good thing Nashville is also known as a town that rises early and stays up late, affording visitors plenty of time to take advantage of the round-the-clock fun.
Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery
On a hot Nashville morning, Charlie and Andy Nelson walk through a distillery that is at once brand new and steeped in history. The gleaming copper still, tasting room, and retail shop are the...
Ole Smoky Distillery
Johnny Baker’s hillbilly accent is as authentic as the moonshine his family has been making for generations, and he uses it to marked effect as he entertains tourists at their Gatlinburg distillery. “We are making coooorn liquor—moonshine,” Baker says, stretching out the vowel to emphasize the appeal of a distillate with a shady, complicated past.
When in Nashville
If you visit Music City, you won’t have trouble finding Belle Meade Bourbon, and you just might bump into whiskey makers Andy and Charlie Nelson at a favorite watering hole or diner.
Star Turn: Loretta Lynn
For almost five decades, Loretta Lynn has called her eponymous ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, home. She returns here wrung out and road weary after countless concert dates across the country and USO tours around the world.
Road Trip: Tennessee’s U.S. Routes 70 & 70N
Fall brings a quickening to the pace of life in the small towns of middle Tennessee. In Mt. Juliet, Rice’s Country Hams opens its doors for ham’s high season, which runs from October through...
College Towns of the South: Knoxville, Tennessee
Although Knoxville retains its Southern grit, the east Tennessee city has put on some polish in the last three decades. The downtown is home to the bustling University of Tennessee campus, as well as a vibrant urban center offering a blend of old and new, rustic and refined.
Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee
This four-day, sweaty, multistage music and camping festival started out as a laid-back jam-band gathering but now attracts more than 80,000 revelers for performances.
Memphis in May
The Beale Street Music Festival, World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, Sunset Symphony, and international education programs all happen in May.