Legends Corner – Nashville

Your visit to Nashville won’t be complete until you take a stroll down lower Broadway, where you’ll run across many gritty little honky-tonk joints. One of Nashville’s best is Legends Corner, known as “Home of Honky-Tonk Lemonade”.

Loads and loads of country album covers, musical instruments and memorabilia (Johnny Cash guitar, KISS dolls, original 78rpm Elvis Presley records, Appalachian pickin’ stick, Australian didgeridoo, Russian balalaika) are all over the walls of the place, but the real draw is the live music and the great location, right across from the arena. Legends always has great live music.

Check out the awesome decorations, have a cool drink and relax, listening to some great live country music. And don’t be shy, get up onto the dance floor and kick up your heels!

Fox Trot Carousel

Located in downtown Nashville at First and Broadway, in Riverfront Park, overlooking the Cumberland River is the Fox Trot Carousel.  Created by Nashville-born artist Red Grooms, the carousel is unique in that all of the figures fashioned by Grooms are famous Tennesseeans, along with a dancing fox.

There are 36 figures in all, including Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Wilma Rudolph, William Edmondson, Kitty Wells, Chet Atkins, the Everly Brothers, and many more.

The whimsical figures and riverside location of the Fox Trot Carousel make it a joy to behold and a joy to ride, for children of all ages.

Nashville Rollergirls

Here’s a sport that’s not unique to Nashville, but it’s so different and so much fun, just had to tell you about it! Roller Derby is back, with hundreds of all-women flat track teams across the country.

Today’s revival of roller derby keeps the athleticism of the original sport and adds punk attitude and showmanship and sassy, feisty, aggressive competition.

The Nashville Rollergirls (NRG) are an amateur all women flat track roller derby team.  They knock each other down, they look good doing it, and they skate away smiling.  This sport is real, and the girls have real fun doing it.

The NRG started in 2006 and has three teams who compete with each other on an intra-league basis: the Assault Rivals , the X-Pistols, and the Damsels of Distress. Traveling to compete with other cities is the NRG’s all-star team, the Nashville RollerGirls. Read more

Edwin and Percy Warner Parks

Just a few miles west of downtown Nashville, you’ll find Edwin Warner and Percy Warner parks, which combined cover almost 2,700 acres of middle-Tennessee countryside. This is one of the largest municipally managed parks in America, offering miles of hiking trails, bridle paths, scenic drives and picnic shelters. Read more

Nashville Golf Courses

Belle Meade Country Club, 815 Belle Meade Blvd, Nashville, TN 37205, (615)298-5744, Private, 18 hole, 6,732 yds, Par 72, CR-73.6, S-136

Gaylord Springs At Gaylord Opryland Resort, 18 Springhouse Ln, Nashville, TN 37214, (615)458-1730, Public, 18 hole, 7,007 yds, Par 72, CR-74.1, S-133

Harpeth Hills Municipal Golf Course, 2424 Old Hickory Blvd, Nashville, TN 37221, (615)862-8493, Municipal, 18 hole, 6,868 yds, Par 72, CR-73.1, S-126 Read more

Nash Trash Tours

You’ve never taken a “city tour” like the Nash Trash Tour. It lasts about 90 outrageous minutes or so aboard the gaudiest tour bus in Nashville.

This ride is more like a traveling comedy show and cocktail party than a city tour, and you don’t have to be a country music fan to have loads of fun on this laugh-riot.

Climb aboard the Big Pink Bus for a truly unique Nashville experience! This country musical / comedy tour is guaranteed to have you laughing ’til your face hurts as the Jugg Sisters, Sheri Lynn and Brenda Kay, show you Nashville like you never dreamed. Read more

Country Music Hall of Fame®

Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is located in downtown Nashville, just a few blocks from the honky-tonks of Broadway and the “mother church” of country music, the Ryman Auditorium.

This new $37 million location was opened in 2001, and the monumental appearance of this unique building livens up the skyline in Nashville’s downtown entertainment area.

The Museum has an incredibly vast collection to record country music’s history, and inside, Read more

The Grand Ole Opry

It started as a radio show in 1925, and has survived to be the oldest continuous radio broadcast in the USA. It is also heard on XM Radio, and is televised on Saturdays on the Great American Country network.

From it’s simple beginnings, the Grand Ole Opry has become an American icon, and is Nashville’s Number One attraction.

Always broadcasting to live audiences, in the early years, after building a larger studio to accomodate the growing audience, in 1934 the Opry moved outside its studio to the Read more

Stock-Yard Restaurant

The Stock-Yard restaurant is recognized as one of the Top 10 steak houses in the USA.  The Stock-Yard serve Certified Angus Beef® steaks exclusively. The steaks at the Stock-Yard are aged to perfect tenderness and cooked to order over a hickory, charcoal grill.

When the Nashville Union Stock-Yards was established in 1924, corrals lined Second Avenue and were filled with livestock – cattle, hogs, sheep and mules – awaiting sale.  For over 50 years the stockyards were the livestock trading center of the mid-south.

The handsome building featured hallways lined with pink Italian marble trimmed in the finest cherry wood.  On the main floor buyers and sellers would find offices of many trading companies along with a bank,telegraph office, a barbershop, saloon and even a private gambling room!  The commissioner’s offices were upstairs and livestock was auctioned off downstairs.  As distribution channels changed in the latter half of the century, the Nashville Stock-Yards were no longer viable. Read more

Aquarium Restaurant – Nashville

Your adventure begins as you’re seated all around the massive (200,000 gallon) aquarium, located to allow eye-popping floor-to-ceiling viewing from every table in the restaurant.

Over 100 species of tropical fish from the Hawaii, Caribbean Sea, Indian Ocean and the South Pacific – live in the aquarium. And the Nashville Aquarium Restaurant has sharks! It has 3 species of Shark; Black Tip, White Tip & Grey Nurse.

Twice a day, to all the diners’ delight, a diver makes feedings in full view of the dining room.

The Aquarium features only the freshest fish, seafood, steaks and more.

The Nashville Aquarium is located in the Opry Mills mall, across from the Grand Old Opry and the Opryland Hotel.

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