Top Tennessee Half-day Tours

Enjoy Nashville through its food and drinks on this food tour by small-group van. With a guide, you'll be introduced to the city's food, history, culture, and sights in one tour as you visit quirky and quaint neighborhoods and stop at local eateries to sample dishes such as slow-roasted barbecue, authentic hot chicken, and Nashville's own frosty cocktail, the Bushwhacker. Select your preferred departure time when booking.

Cruise on Nashville's Cumberland River aboard one of the country's largest paddle-wheel boats, the 'General Jackson Showboat', during this excursion. Book for a lunch or dinner cruise, enjoying the scenery on the riverbanks as well as live entertainment. Round-trip transportation from local hotels included.

See the sights and sounds of Nashville on this guided sightseeing tour around Music City. Choose from a morning or afternoon departure, then enjoy the ride. Get an educational and entertaining live narrative from the experienced guide while rolling past famous landmark locations like historic Riverfront Park, Ryman Auditorium, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Tennessee State Capitol and more. Admission is included to Ryman Auditorium and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Explore the top attractions in Memphis on this sightseeing tour along the Mississippi River. See landmark locations like the Memphis Pyramid, now a Bass Pro Shops “megastore” with shopping, a hotel, restaurants, a bowling alley, and an archery range; the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and much more. A Memphis hotel pickup and drop-off are included on this tour.

Explore downtown Nashville on a food walking tour. Learn about the architecture, history, and landmarks of the city with a guide as you wander through the historic riverfront area and sample Southern food items and a specialty cocktail. You may also hear some live music and perhaps enjoy a beer.

Nashville's most talked about local distillery and craft brewery tasting experience. Music City craft brewery and distillery scene is booming! Let us show you around our favorite spots and flavors. Our Craft Brewery & Distillery Tasting experience stops at 3-4 locations that create Middle Tennessee’s best beers, bourbons, whiskey’s, vodka and moonshine if we can find a way. No drinking and driving! We provide VIP Transportation with our tour guides throughout the Tour & Tasting experience. Tour involves 9-12 samples and transportation are provided from 1st location to the last location. Tour ends at the Nashville's hottest hangout 6th and Peabody home of Ole Smokey Distilling and Yee Haw Brewery!

Explore Nashville from a local's perspective on this city tour with a local guide. Aboard an open-air, low-speed vehicle, cruise through Nashville to see more than 35 landmarks and other sightseeing locations. Notable sights along this tour include Country Music Hall of Fame, Ryman Auditorium, Johnny Cash Museum, Germantown, The Gulch, Tootsies, and Music Row. Select a morning, afternoon, or evening tour when booking.

This is new and unique experience. If you are interested in seeing and doing more than simply a sightseeing tour or a mural tour, this is a new and unique experience! During this 3 hour excursion you will spend your time seeing the sights, visiting murals, and visiting a brewery or two or even a distillery! We want the choice to be yours. This customized tour is basically 1 hour of each of these types of tours: Explore the City of Nashville, Mural/Insta Tour, and Brewery/Distillery Tour. This is your chance to do and see more without doing 3 separate tours!

Get oriented with Nashville on this quick "New Nashville" tour, which was designed to show off the best of the city for those short on time or who only want an introduction before exploring more on their own. Traveling by open-top double-decker bus, you'll pass by more than 100 landmarks and attractions, such as Ryman Auditorium and Vanderbilt University.

See more of Nashville than just the music sights on this street art tour by private golf cart. With a guide, cruise along city streets, stopping at murals for photo ops. Select a morning, afternoon, or evening departure time when booking.

Get spectacular views of the city and tick off many of Nashville’s top landmarks in a short space of time on this private helicopter tour. Ascend above Music City and get aerial views of the Ryman Auditorium, Downtown Nashville, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Tennessee State Capitol, and Germantown.

Discover Gatlinburg distilleries on this moonshine tasting tour. Learn how moonshine is traditionally distilled—and maybe even take a look behind-the-scenes with a distiller—and try plenty of samples, too. If you want, take a bottle home with you using the exclusive discount included for tour-goers.

Chow down like a bonafide Memphian during this history-packed Memphis food crawl. You’ll enjoy seven specially prepared food tastings at six different hotspots, including both family-owned eateries and award-winning restaurants. Classic dishes—from hot tamales to house-made desserts—use only sustainable, locally sourced ingredients, and you’ll discover the culture and history of the dynamic Tennessee city along the way.

Explore downtown Memphis on this all-inclusive tour. Visit the Smithsonian’s Rock N' Soul Museum along with top attractions such as Beale Street, known as the home of the blues, and Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. A barbecue tasting and trip to the Peabody Hotel's March of the Ducks, a much-loved Memphis tradition, are also included.

First-time visitors to Memphis appreciate this overview driving tour of the city's key sights. Choose from morning or afternoon departures to see the city's Victorian homes, Beale Street, and Graceland, among other attractions. Stop to visit the famous ducks that make their home at the Peabody Hotel. Round-trip transport from and to your hotel (most mid-south properties) is included.

Drive past the Mississippi River, grand Victorian homes, and cultural landmarks on this narrated tour of Memphis, which takes you beyond the city’s obvious sights. A tour of the legendary Sun Studios, where artists such as Johnnie Cash and Elvis Presley recorded their music is also included as is round-trip transportation from your downtown Memphis hotel.

Nashville's ORIGINAL pub crawl: The Honky Tonk Pub Crawl is a sightseeing tour and pub crawl combined. Nashville's Best Walking Tour/Pub Crawl Combo! You get to do a pub crawl while, at the same time, taking a walking sightseeing tour of historic downtown Nashville along the way! Patrons will not only get a good time, but they will receive discounts and freebies to bars and restaurants downtown. You'll get much more bang for your buck! With the discounts and freebies, the tour will pay for itself!

Our experienced guides will take you through the small cozy streets of Nashville for a 3-3 ½ hour Southern gastronomy tour in the authentic area of 12South/Midtown. You'll finish our tour full of great food and have a better understanding of the Nashville/Southern culture, local history, and how to live like a local. Plus with all our tours, there's our Secret Dish, which you can only find out about on the tour.

This experience hits it all! Wine, Moonshine, Whiskey, Local cuisine, and Appalachian culture. Let the Husband/Wife team - Mike and Jenn (Hosts of the #1 rated Airbnb Experience Moonshine Walking tour) show you around Pigeon Forge. We are living our dream showing people this amazing town we came to love over 10 years ago after visiting just like you are! We meet up inside the Islands of Pigeon Forge. Our first location is one of our favorite distilleries in the area. We will sample "grain to bottle" spirits from Vodka, Moonshine and Whiskey. Next you will be treated to an AMAZING lunch! After lunch we head to Georgia's premier vineyard that now has a satellite location HERE. Many times we may see the owner! After the wine tasting, we will head out to a true backwoods style moonshine distillery. You can sample all the way from Pumpkin Spice to right off the still 135 proof moonshine. Don't see your dates? Large Group? Sold out? Just Message us! Jenn and I co-host.

Experience Tennessee’s backcountry on a thrilling ride via a side–by–side (SXS) vehicle. This half–day tour is a great way to explore the rugged terrain of Williamsport in a unique way. Traverse dirt roads and shallow creeks, pass ghost towns and historic stores, and see caves and waterfalls throughout your journey.

On this four-hour walking tour, you'll visit four different Chattanooga breweries and go behind the scenes to meet the brewmasters and learn the art and science behind their craft. Then a guided tasting at each location will give you the opportunity to sample the breweries' signature beers and seasonal selections. You'll also have time to order a pint or a bite to eat at each location before we move to the next brewery. And as you walk from one brewery to the next, you'll hear about the fascinating history of Chattanooga and its landmarks. Your guide is a 40-year resident of Chattanooga and the co-founder of ChattaBrew Tour, a bus tour of the city's breweries. She has traveled to more than 100 countries on all seven continents, tasting beers at every stop along the way. Her co-host has been part of Chattanooga's beer scene for nearly 20 years. A devout beer lover, he spends his free time touring breweries across the country and learning more about the art and science of brewing beer.

Visit Nashville distilleries for a taste of Tennessee whiskey on a spirited tour of Nashville best pours. You'll learn about Tennessee's bootlegging past, get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how spirits are made, and discover the difference between fine whiskey and local moonshine. The tour visits different distilleries each day, chosen from a list of locations that range from science-driven spirits producers to down-home, family-owned whiskey operations.

Charter a private pontoon boat for your group and spend the day at your leisure on a Nashville lake. Unlike on a shared tour, you'll have the boat all to yourself, allowing you to dictate the music and schedule. Coolers, ice, and bottled water are provided and guests can bring their own snacks and drinks. Beer, wine, and liquor are welcome onboard if participants are over 21. Plus, two watersport activities are included.

**Please note that all participants will be required to wear a mask for orientation and any instances where close contact cannot be avoided. Please bring your own masks and hand sanitizer. You will also be asked to sign an acknowledgement of risks and report any illness within 14 days of tour.** With 3100 miles of streams in the Smokies, there are thousands of beautiful stretches of white water. Adventure awaits as you explore the magic of pristine cascades and waterfalls on a little known trail. We'll warm up on a more popular trail, pausing to enjoy smaller cascades before turning onto a less traveled section of the Park. In the winter, we'll enjoy beautiful glimpses of the surrounding mountains, during the spring we'll pause to enjoy our famous wildflower display, summer brings refreshing swimming holes and in autumn the beauty of changing leaves. This hike is considered moderately adventurous as we gain elevation, climb over downed trees and get our feet wet.