Tennessee

Somewhere in the corner of a busy Tennessee town sits a small counter that has folks planning trips…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 13

Tennessee has plenty of chain steakhouses, but the ones worth driving for usually sit off the main highway…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 13

About an hour and change from Nashville sits a waterfall that ranks among the tallest in the entire…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 13

Tennessee has more shoreline than most people expect, and some of the best small towns in the state…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 13

Some restaurants come and go with the seasons, but a rare few stay standing for nearly a century,…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 13

Some restaurants come and go, but a good small-town diner tends to stick around for decades. In Tennessee,…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 12

Some of the best morning meals in Tennessee hide in towns you would never find without a wrong…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 12

Tucked into the middle of Tennessee sits a waterfall that plunges about 75 feet into a wide swimming…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 12

Tucked into the quiet woods of southwestern Tennessee sits a restored 1840s home where the walls hold Civil…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 12

Tennessee takes its catfish seriously, and some of the best plates come from small, no-frills spots that have…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 12

Some of the best meals in Nashville happen far from the honky-tonks and neon signs. Tucked along a…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 12

Tucked along a mountain highway near the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains sits a small-town spot where…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 11

Some places in Nashville draw a crowd long before the doors open, and this one has folks waiting…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 11

Tucked into the hills of East Tennessee, the small city of Sevierville has quietly built a reputation that…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 11

Small towns in West Tennessee hide plenty of places worth a slow Sunday drive, and this one has…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 11

Tennessee keeps popping up on lists of places people move to when they want their savings to stretch…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 11

Somewhere in East Tennessee sits a small city where you can shop for antiques and see mountain ridges…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 11

Somewhere in the Smoky Mountains, there is a little spot where chrome sparkles, the music never quits, and…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 10

Tucked along a mountain river in the Smokies sits a rustic dining room where dinner comes with a…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 10

Middle Tennessee holds a spot where three rivers meet, limestone cliffs drip with water, and a historic dam…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 10

Tucked into a quiet stretch of the Cumberland Plateau sits a village that never quite caught up with…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 10

A neon sign glowing along a quiet stretch of Tennessee highway has been guiding hungry travelers off the…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 10

Somewhere in Nashville, an old industrial building hums with the electronic chirps of Pac-Man, Frogger, and dozens of…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 9

Tucked into the rolling highlands of central Tennessee sits a place where cliffs drop away and water tumbles…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 9

Deep in the Cumberland Mountains sits a wilderness so wild that fallen trees are left right where they…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 9

Some parks have swings and slides, and then there are parks with a giant sea serpent curling right…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 9

Some places in Tennessee hide their best surprises just past the parking lot, and this one packs a…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 9

Tennessee has a way of slowing you down in the best possible way. Between the rolling hills, quiet…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 9

Somewhere between the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and a wide, quiet lake, a community has become…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 8

Tennessee is famous for big-name spots like Nashville and Gatlinburg, but some of the best trips happen in…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 8

Tennessee has plenty of big-name cities, but some of the best living happens in the small towns where…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 8

Tennessee hides a stretch of clear water where log cabins perch right at the edge, and mornings there…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 8

Tennessee takes its hot chicken seriously, and once you taste the real thing, you understand why people plan…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 8

Some places make you slow down the second you sit down, and this little spot in Mt. Pleasant,…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 7

Some corners of Nashville have barely blinked while the rest of the city grew skyscrapers and traffic. Tucked…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 7

High on a broad tableland in Tennessee sits a quiet community where the days move at their own…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 7

Deep in the wilderness outside Sparta, Tennessee, a waterfall tumbles out of a cave, plunges over a rocky…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 7

Tucked into the rolling hills of Middle Tennessee sits a Victorian estate where the calendar seems stuck somewhere…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 7

High in the northeastern corner of Tennessee, there is a stretch of land that climbs past 6,000 feet…

By Caleb Whitaker · Aug 7