Adventures in Tennessee
No beaches, no worries. Landlocked Tennessee still offers a wealth of natural attractions and adventure around every corner.
While there are no coastal resorts, there is a wealth of fun activities to indulge in on its lakes and rivers, as well as much more besides.
Such is the variety of the state’s outdoor adventures, Tennessee Tourism has launched a Choose Your Adventure visitor guide on its website.
Tennessee is home to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Here, in the most visited National Park in the US, visitors can off-road, hit the trails, and unleash their inner WildSide on MegaZip, the longest zipline in the US.
Other Tennessee adventure hubs include the watery wonderland around Chattanooga – currently basking in its new ‘National Park City’ status – where visitors can try their hand at ‘glow kayaking’, or paddle to Nickajack Bat Cave.
Bike Tennessee is a statewide cycling initiative featuring 52 road cycling routes designed to showcase small towns, natural landscapes and hidden gems along Tennessee’s backroads, backed by a GPS app for riders. Initiatives such as Waterfalls for All, meanwhile, aim to make the state’s outdoor attractions accessible to all.
Guided fishing trips are available at Dale Hollow Lake and the 43-mile-long Douglas Lake, in East Tennessee.
Johnson City’s Winged Deer Park Lakefront is the place to experience one of the state’s active outdoor festival highlights. Visitors venturing to Meet the Mountains Festival should be prepared to kayak, paddle board, cast a fly rod, and ride a mountain bike over an obstacle course.
https://www.tnvacation.com/articles/choose-your-outdoor-adventure-tennessee
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