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Outdoor Recreation
Spring through fall, visitors can picnic along the abundance of trees in the beautiful public parks and bike the nature trails at Barfield Crescent Park. Several public boat launches such as J. Percy Priest Lake and Long Hunter State Park are the gateways to some of the best catfish, crappie and bass fishing.
Festivals
In Rutherford County, we love any reason to party. In May, JazzFest celebrates the smooth sounds of jazz on the Murfreesboro Downtown Square. In June, the International Folk Festival highlights culture with music, art and food. The Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival is a Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 event. This three-day festival brings entertainers, food vendors and artists from across the United States and world for an event like no other. Rutherford County offers visitors an opportunity for a great experience year round.
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Rutherford County has some of the finest dining in Tennessee. To say food is “great,” “wonderful” and “delightful” shortchange the real taste explosions set off by such local restaurants as Five Senses, Demos’, Miller’s Grocery, Kleer-Vu Lunchroom, Toot’s and Hickory Falls, just to name a few. If you’ve never had hot water cornbread, fried dill pickle chips or corn nuggets, these culinary treats are worth a visit to the area by themselves.
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- Historic homes
- Multicultural Tourism
- Family Fun
- Ghosts
Top things to do in Rutherford County, Tennessee:
- Stand in the exact center of our great state at the stone obelisk in Murfreesboro, which marks Tennessee’s center point.
- View one of the world’s largest spinning wheels in the world at the historic Cannonsburgh Village in Murfreesboro.
- Visit the state-of-the-art visitor center at Stones River National Battlefield, and find out if any of your family members gave their life during one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
- View the nation’s oldest intact Civil War monument at Stones River National Battlefield.
- Watch and listen in amazement as the national champions in old-time banjo, old-time buckdancing and old-time clogging entertain thousands at the Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival in Murfreesboro.
- View some of the oldest known photographs of Murfreesboro at Bradley Academy Cultural Arts & Museum.
- Enjoy some of the best down-home cooking and bluegrass music while having dinner at Miller’s Grocery in Christiana.
- Experience the gracious living of the Old South at Oaklands Historic House Museum as you go back in time and visit the elegant mansion that was host to Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the Civil War.
- Follow the cedar-lined lane and be transported back to the early 1800s where you will hear the story of the boy hero of the Civil War, Sam Davis, and visit his home located in Smyrna.
- Visit a piece of history still making history today at the Rutherford County Courthouse, one of only six pre-Civil War Courthouses in Tennessee still serving its original purpose today.
