Nashville’s Best Hiking Trails
Explore Nashville’s Best Hiking Trails
One weekend activity you may enjoy is hitting the trails on a hike with the family! There are some amazing views in Tennessee. Some of Nashville’s best hiking trails are to be found in the Warner Parks. These parks are extensive and they provide beautiful green space for picnics and there are trails for hikes.
Another location of hiking trails is on the greenways along the Cumberland River, Richland Creek, Rolling Mill Hill and Stones River.
First day hikes are free guided tours of state parks in Tennessee on the first day of the year.
Hiking Locations in Nashville
Here are some of the places in Nashville where you can hike:
- Radnor Lake State Park – 1160 Otter Creek Rd, Nashville, TN 37220
- Percy Warner Hiking Trailhead, Nashville TN 37221
- Percy Warner Park – 50 Vaughn RD, Nashville, TN 37221
- Percy Warner Mountain Bike Trail – 1300 Forrest Park Dr, Nashville, TN 37205
- Percy Warner Ridgeline Trail – 1300 Forrest Park Dr, Nashville, TN 37205
- Richland Creek Greenway- McCabe Trailhead, – 4617 Sloan Rd, Nashville, TN 37209
- Volunteer Trail – Granny Wright Ln, Hermitage, TN 37076
- Stones River Greenway Trail Head – Stewarts Ferry Pike, Nashville, TN 37214
- The Trails at Fontanel – Unnamed Road, Whites Creek, TN 37189 Cumberland River Greenway
- Vaughn’s Gap – 7199 TN-100, Nashville, TN 37221
- Lebanon Road Trailhead – Nashville, TN 37214
- Rolling Mill Hill Greenway – Rolling Mill Hill Greenway, Nashville, TN 37210
- Richland Creek Greenway – Lion’s Head Trailhead, Richland Creek Greenway, Nashville, TN 37205
- Cumberland River Greenway, 2143 – 2097 Ed Temple Blvd, Nashville TN 37208
Waterfall Hikes near Nashville
If waterfalls are your thing consider Waterfall Hikes near Nashville:
Some of the waterfalls listed below may be outside of the Nashville metro area, you may need to travel some distance to see them. Anyway , it will be worth the trip just to see their spectacular beauty.
Here is the list. (Fall Creek Falls is Tennessee’s largest waterfall and it is furthest from Nashville):
- Rutledge Falls, Tullahoma – 1 hour 8 mins; 70.3 miles from Nashville
- Greeter Falls, Altamont – 1 hour 35 minutes; 90.8 miles from Nashville
- Fiery Gizzard, Tracy City – 1 hour 33 minutes ; 94.6miles from Nashville
- Fall Creek Falls, Spencer – 2 hours, 2 minutes; 124.9 miles from Nashville
- Cummins Falls, Cookeville – 1 hour 48 minutes; 83.8 miles from Nashville
- Twin Falls, Rock Island – 1 hour, 42 mInutes; 92.4 miles from Nashville
- Foster Falls, Sequatchie – 1 hour 45 minutes; 102.7 miles from Nashville
- Ozone Falls, Crossville – 1 hour, 54 minutes; 125.7 miles from Nashville
- Burgess Falls, Sparta – 1 hour 19 minutes; 80.4 miles from Nashville
- Virgin Falls, Sparta. – 1 hour 54 minutes; 113.2 miles from Nashville
Hiking Associations:
Hiking associations are priceless if you are a hiking aficionado. Here are a few:
- Nashville Hiking Meetup -over 21,000 members
- Tennessee Trails Association – for hikes all over Tennessee and out of state too.
- Natchez Trace Parkways Association
- Nashville Backpacker Meetup
- Greenways for Nashville
- Friends of Radnor Lake
- Friends of Warner Park
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