Historic Roads & Trails
Looking for a hearty helping of Tennessee heritage? There is no better way to experience Tennessee's traditional arts and crafts, musical roots and historical sights than by taking it to the trail.
Travel the historic Avery Trace Trail and step back to the 1800s as you walk the same road settlers once used when traveling from Knoxville to Nashville. Explore the Cherokee Heritage Trail and discover unique wares by Cherokee artists and crafts people, or visit the Sam Davis Trail and pay tribute to the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy." Tennessee trails offer something for every age and interest. Choose the trail for you.
Art & Fine Crafters Trail of Southeast Tennessee
In Southeast Tennessee traditional heritage skills of quilting, blacksmithing, and stringed-instument making live comfortably side-by-side with the fine arts and crafts of art glass, hand thrown pottery, sculpture, and print making. ...more
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City: Multi-city, TN
Phone: (423) 424-4263
Cades Cove
For hundreds of years, Cherokee Indians hunted in Cades Cove. The first Europeans settled in the cove sometime between 1818 and 1821. ...more
Region: Smoky Mountains
City: Townsend, TN
Phone: (877) 444-6777
Cherokee Heritage Trails
A 432-page guidebook travels through the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the mountains of NC, TN, and GA around seven geographical hubs or communities within the original Cherokee homeland, covering sites, side trips, scenic drives, events, Cherokee stories, history, poems, and philosophy. ...more
Region: Chattanooga & Southeast
City: Etowah, TN
Phone: 423-263-7232
Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail
One of the nation's most historic routes, the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail was blazed by the legendary frontiersman in 1775 from Long Island of the Holston at what is now Kingsport, TN, through the Cumberland Gap of Virginia and into Kentucky. It would become the route for hundreds of thousands of settlers of the western frontier. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Kingsport, TN
Phone: 423-392-8820
Furs to Factories Heritage Area Trail
The Furs to Factories Heritage Trail has been described as a “museum without walls. ” And it’s true. ...more
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City: Multi-city, TN
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Historic Avery Trace
Avery's Trace was the principal road used by settlers travelling from the Knoxville area in East Tennessee to the Nashville area from 1788 to the mid-1830s.
In an effort to encourage settlers to move west into the new territory of Tennessee, in 1787 North Carolina ordered a road to be cut to lead settlers into the Cumberland Settlements from the south end of Clinch mountain to French Lick. ...more
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City: Multi-city, TN
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Mountain Quilt Trail
<p>Downtown Walking Trail for over 30 quilt trail squares. ...more
Region: Upper Cumberland
City: Monterey, TN
Phone: (931) 303-5156
Natchez Trace Parkway
The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway and Byway commemorates the ancient trail used by animals and people that connected portions of the Mississippi River to the salt licks in central Tennessee.
It took “Kaintucks” about 30 days to walk along the Trace, carrying goods to sell at the port of New Orleans. ...more
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City: Pasquo, TN
Phone: (800) 305-7417
Natchez Trace Wine Trail
The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway commemorates an ancient trail that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River, through Alabama, to today's central Tennessee. The Tennessee cities along the historic Natchez Trace Parkway are Nashville, Franklin, Leiper's Fork and Brentwood. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Franklin, TN
Phone: (800) 305-7417
Promised Land Trail
The Promised Land Trail is waiting for you: discover the fertile land that beckoned Tennessee’s first settlers from Northeast Tennessee, over the Cumberland Plateau, into Nashville and beyond.
Along the first road into Tennessee, the Avery Trace, as well as the historic Walton Road that ran parallel to Highway 70, many believed they would reach a “promised land” at the end of the journey, as many were seeking lands they were granted from service to the new country. ...more
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City: , TN
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Ring of Fire Trail
The Ring of Fire Trail is waiting for you: a trail of music, history and landscape that will capture your soul like a heart-wrenching country ballad. You can almost hear the music as you drive through the lush Tennessee landscape dotted with wineries, small towns, farms and villages. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
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Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
A one-way road tour which parallels Roaring Fork Creek, a sight to behold. Be sure to roll down your windows so you can hear the water at full force. ...more
Region: Smoky Mountains
City: Gatlinburg, TN
Phone: (865) 436-1200
Take a journey into Tennessee's rich history and heritage on the Old Tennessee Trail. Over eighty points of interest take you from...
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