Central Tennessee

Central Tennessee, more often called Middle Tennessee, is a region of Tennessee. Besides the obvious destinations like Nashville, there are some lesser known ones, like Carthage, for instance, the hometown of former Vice-President Al Gore.

Cities

• 1 Nashville - Music City U.S.A., Country music capital of the world, and the State Capitol
• 2 Antioch
• 3 Ashland City
• 4 Brentwood
• 5 Clarksville - Home to the U.S. Army's Ft. Campbell and Austin Peay State University
• 6 Columbia - Home of 11th U.S. President James K. Polk with many Southern antebellum homes nearby
• 7 Cookeville - Home of Tennessee Technological University
• 8 Cowan
• 9 Decherd
• 10 Dickson
• 11 Dover
• 12 Fayetteville
• 13 Franklin - Location of the famous Civil War Battle of Franklin
• 14 Hendersonville - City by The Lake, Nashville suburb
• 15 Hermitage
• 16 La Vergne
• 17 Lawrenceburg - David Crockett, Southern Gospel, Amish community
• 18 Lebanon - Home of Cracker Barrel
• 19 Lynchburg - Home of world-famous Jack Daniel's Distillery
• 20 Manchester
• 21 Monteagle - Located along the edges of the picturesque Cumberland Plateau
• 22 Mount Juliet - City Between the Lakes
• 23 Murfreesboro - Location of Civil War Stones River Battlefield, and also home to Middle Tennessee State University
• 24 Ocoee
• 25 Sewanee - Home to the beautiful University of the South
• 26 Smyrna
• 27 Tracy City - where a dead man was elected mayor
• 28 Tullahoma - Location of the NASA Arnold Engineering Center
• 29 White House
• 30 Waverly
• 31 Winchester - Nearby Tim's Ford Lake offers recreational activities

Other destinations

• The Natchez Trace Parkway crosses through Middle Tennessee. It begins in Nashville and continues south through Wayne County where it enters Alabama. The road continues all the way to Natchez, Mississippi where it ends. The stretch through Middle Tennessee is often regarded as the most beautiful portion of the road. There are numerous overlooks, hiking trails, and waterfalls in the beautiful scenery of the rolling, Tennessee hills.
• Lake Barkley
• Land Between the Lakes

See

• Tennessee Wineries. Visit at least one of the more than 20 wineries in Tennessee. Here in Middle Tennessee are these: Vineyards & Winery (Clarksville), |Chateau Ross Vineyard & Winery (Springfield), Crest Winery (Portland), Barn Winery & Vineyards (Lafayette), Creek Winery (Manchester), Vineyards & Winery (Shelbyville), Springs Winery (Hampshire), Ridge Winery and Vineyard (Livingston), |Highland Manor Winery (Jamestown) and Winery, Inc. (Crossville)

• 1 Meriwether Lewis National Monument or Grinder's Stand, east of Hohenwald and near mile marker 389 along the Natchez Trace, grave and reconstructed inn where it is believed Meriwether Lewis took his life.
• 2 State Historic Rock House, 3663 Country Club Rd, Sparta, ☏ +1 931 739-7625. W-Sa 10AM-3PM. Historic way station along a wagon road between Nashville and Knoxville circa the 1830s where Andrew Jackson once stopped, and near the town of Sparta that nearly became Tennessee's state capital. (updated Sep 2021)

Do

• 3 Cumberland Caverns, east of McMinnville, where you can stop to see antebellum estates like the Black House and Falcon Rest, this is the 2nd largest cave in Tennessee, with a chandelier from the Lowes Metropolitan Theater in NYC.

Drink

Visit the Microbrewery at Yazoo in Nashville. Take the tour get a growler

Go next

• East Tennessee - The Eastern Grand Division of Tennessee with valleys and ridges plus the Allegheny Mountains
• West Tennessee - The Western Grand Division extends west from the Tennessee River and is the northern boundary of the Mississippi Delta cultural region.