Tennessee Active and Adventure Travel Guide

Tennessee Active and Adventure Travel Guide

• Tennessee Overview
• Tennessee Hotels
• Tennessee Attractions
• Tennessee Feature Articles
• Tennessee Airports
• Tennessee Flights

Other Guides for Tennessee

• Tennessee Travel
• Active and Adventure Guide
  • Biking
  • Hiking and Backpacking
  • Paddling
• Family Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Horses and Riding
  • Road and Rail Journeys

Top Active and Adventure Destinations In Tennessee

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
  (148 mi.)
• Appalachian Trail, ME
  (164 mi.)
• Cherokee National Forest, TN
  (130 mi.)
• Natchez Trace Parkway, MS
  (135 mi.)

Travel Guides In Tennessee

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (148 mi.)
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Family Guide
• Memphis, TN (0.5 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Nashville, TN (6.1 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Chattanooga, TN (144 mi.)
• Alcoa, TN (82 mi.)
• Brentwood, TN (8.9 mi.)
• Clarksville, TN (41 mi.)
• Cookeville, TN (71 mi.)
• Crossville, TN (142 mi.)
• Dickson, TN (35 mi.)

Southeast Active and Adventure States/Provinces

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• Tennessee
• Virginia

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• Midwest
  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
• Mountain West
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Utah
  • Wyoming
• Northeast
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Vermont
• Pacific Coast
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Southeast
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
• Southwest
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas

Moss-covered stream flowing through Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Adam Jones/Photodisc/Getty)

On This Page:

• Top Destinations
• Photos
• Feature Articles
• Trip Ideas
• Practical Advice
• Gear
• Fitness
• Attractions
• Hotels

Top Active and Adventure Destinations	Related Travel Guides	Find Hotels
Great Smoky Mountains National Park		Hotels
Cherokee National Forest		Hotels
Appalachian Trail		Hotels
Natchez Trace Parkway		Hotels

Photos

Feature Articles

• Tennessee
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  Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• The Weekenders
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  Mountain Bike in Tennessee
• Great Smoky Mountains
  outside
  The Southeast's Backwoods at its Best
• GORP - Big South Fork NRRA, Tennessee - Paddling
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• GORP - Paddling - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Trip Ideas

• Five Great Family Escapes
  100-Mile Wilderness Trail, Maine
• At Home in the Wild
  Civility and wilderness meet at Little Lyford Pond Sport Camps

Practical Advice

• Tuning Up Your Skis
  outside
  "Ninety percent of people do nothing to take care of their skis from the day they buy them to the day they throw them in the trash," says Peter Boyer, of Boulder, Colorado's Alpine Base & Edge. Don't follow suit. We asked Boyer for a few tips to keep your skis and boards running fast and true.
• What Chris Figenshau, Photographer, Brings
  outside
  The 37-year-old Victor, Idaho, resident spends over 100 days a year in the field, often chasing the world's best skiers around in snowy ranges from Bolivia to Morocco. Here's what he usually takes along.
• Playing It Safe
  Tout, scam, trickery, pickpockets, or downright theft—any one of 'em can turn a trip of a lifetime into a lifelong lesson. Here's how to avoid bad experiences.
• Fix a Busted Tire with a Buck
  outside
  Flatten your bike tire on a thorn and you can patch the inner tube or swap in a new one—no problem. Damage the tire itself (say, by tearing your sidewall on a sharp rock)—much bigger problem. Here's a quick field solution to keep you on the roll.
• How to Build a Bomber Anchor
  outside
  To set up your own anchor for a climbing top rope (or slackline, or car stuck in a ditch), all you need is a 20-foot piece of webbing, a carabiner, and a tree.

Gear

• Therm-a-Rest ProLite 3 and Trekker Chair
  The best sleeping pad and chair-maker
• Ice Climbing Gear Essentials
  outside
  The key to staying warm and stuck to the ice? The right stuff.
• Train: Bell Volt Bike Helmet
  outside
  
• Trek: Camp Corsa Ice Ax
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• Movement Goliath Backcountry Skis
  outside
  

Fitness

• The Rowbike
  outside
  Video
• Saddle Up
  outside
  Spring is here. Time to wipe the cobwebs off your bike, oil your chain, and kick your fitness into a new gear. Here's how.
• The Crazy Bet
  outside
  Win a $6,000 Custom Made Frame Set!
• The Master Plan
  outside
  A sport-by-sport guide to everything you need to excel.
• Mountain Athlete
  outside
  Jackson, Wyoming

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Attractions

Clingmans Dome

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c/o Great Smoky Mountains National Park,107 Park Headquarters Road
Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738

Description:

At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Nolichucky River Gorge

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Cherokee National Forest (TN) and Pisgah National Forest (NC)


Description: The Nolichucky River Gorge stretches for 110 miles and offers Class I-IV whitewater. ... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Ocoee River Gorge

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Cherokee National Forest


Description: Ocoee River Gorge is a popular whitewater rafting destination. More than 200,000 water enthusiasts visit the four-and-a-half-mile Ocoee whitewater rafting area each year.... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Hotels

The Hermitage Hotel

231 Sixth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219 Map

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Fontana Village Resort

Highway 28
Fontana Dam, NC 28733 Map

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Dancing Bear Lodge

137 Apple Valley Way
Townsend, TN 37822 Map

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