Nashville Adventures Blog

Valentine’s Day in Nashville does not have to mean yelling across a table in an overcrowded restaurant or fighting for parking on Broadway. There are better ways to spend the day and night. Ways that actually let you talk. Ways that feel intentional. Ways that feel like Nashville instead of a copy paste holiday. If you are looking for things to do in Nashville for Valentine’s Day that feel thoughtful and memorable, start here. Skip the Prix Fixe Chaos and Do Something Togethe

by Paul Whitten Can anyone name the place in Nashville? If you are traveling to Music City with a dog, Nashville is a good place to land. This town has always been social by nature, and over the last decade that social energy has spilled onto patios, rooftops, greenways, and breweries that welcome dogs without a second thought. Dog-friendly Nashville is not a niche here. It is part of the culture. I spend a lot of time walking this city for a living, and I see dogs everywhere

If you spend enough time walking these streets, you start to realize something. Nashville is not just a music town. It is a film set waiting to happen. Our skyline, our small neighborhood pockets, even our old brick back alleys have shown up in some of Hollywood’s biggest features. And when I tell stories on my walking tours, folks are always surprised by how many movies were filmed right here in the city. So I put together a list of the top ten films that used Nashville as t

By Paul Whitten, Founder of Nashville Adventures If you spend enough time downtown, you notice that Music City has a pretty funny relationship with electric scooters. Some folks love them, some folks want them fired into the Cumberland River, and the rest of us fall somewhere in between. The truth is that Nashville has been quietly fighting what I call the Scooter Wars, a long, strange saga filled with tech companies, policy battles, angry locals, injured tourists, and a who

By Paul Whitten If you are planning Valentine’s Day in Nashville, here is the honest truth. The best dates here are not always the loudest, flashiest, or most expensive. They are the ones that feel personal. The kind you talk about years later. These are the best kept secrets of Nashville for couples who want something memorable, not just another dinner reservation. I spend my life walking this city with locals and visitors, and these are the Valentine’s date ideas people alw

The Battle of Stones River was one of the Civil War’s bloodiest engagements and secured Union control of Middle Tennessee. Its legacy still shapes Nashville and the region today.

By Paul Whitten Click to expand and read firsthand! Nashville has been called a lot of things over the years. Music City. Smashville. The Vegas of the South, which makes most locals wince a little. But recently, something different caught my attention. We were mentioned in the Irish Daily Mail ! Not for music charts. Not for bachelorette chaos. But for kindness and hospitality. In the article, the writer described Nashville by saying  that “guitars aren’t the only delights” i

Earlier this week, I wrote an article on Learn Laugh Speak about why the fastest way to learn English is not through apps, flashcards, or gamified lessons, but by talking to real people in real situations. While writing it, I kept thinking about Nashville. Because learning a city works the exact same way as learning a language. You can study it on a screen all day, but it does not actually click until you experience it live, in conversation, with context. That idea sits at th

By Paul Whitten, Founder of Nashville Adventures In 1975, long before bachelorette pedal taverns and neon Broadway, Nashville was captured on film in a way the city had never seen before . The movie Nashville  arrived at a moment when the city was still a regional music town, not yet a global brand. The film did not just depict Nashville. It reshaped how the rest of the country saw it and, in many ways, how Nashville came to see itself. Nearly fifty years later, locals still

Nashville’s hills once echoed with cannon fire during the Battle of Nashville, December 15–16, 1864. This post revisits the battle’s history, the places where it unfolded, and the lasting scars it left on the city. Learn how you can explore these stories through Nashville Adventures’ Civil War and downtown history tours.

Not every tour we give is about Broadway bars or famous recording studios. Some of the most meaningful tours we offer are the ones that get very specific, very niche, and very personal. This week, we had the privilege of leading a private church history tour for Lighthouse Church out of Mount Juliet, Tennessee, and it was one of those days that reminds me why we built Nashville Adventures the way we did. This was not a surface level drive by tour. This was a deep dive into fa