Nashville Tours & Things to Do — 2026

For most groups it's a party bus or pub crawl down Broadway — the party experience that's become the city's signature and one you can't recreate elsewhere. Close behind is a whiskey or distillery tour (in-city tastings plus the Jack Daniel's day trip to Lynchburg), a downtown ghost tour after dark, and a Southern food tour built around Nashville hot chicken. A hop-on trolley or bus loop is the practical pick if you want to link the music landmarks and neighborhoods in a day.

They're the city's signature: pedal taverns are pedal-powered bar-bikes that roll down Broadway past the honky-tonks, and the wider scene runs from party buses and drag-show buses to pub crawls on foot and party cruises on the Cumberland, most with a guide up front. They're built for bachelorette parties, birthdays, and groups. Pedal taverns and tractors are run by a range of local operators you book with directly; the party buses, pub crawls, and cruises are the guided options to compare here. Most are 21-plus and either BYOB or bar-stop based, and weekends book out well ahead.

Yes — Jack Daniel's is in Lynchburg, about ninety minutes south of Nashville, and guided day trips are the easy way to do it: the round-trip handles the driving so the group can actually taste. In the city itself, small distilleries like Nelson's Green Brier, Corsair, and Uncle Nearest run tastings walkable from downtown, so you can do Tennessee whiskey without leaving town. All of it is 21-plus, and weekends book up first.

No — the music landmarks (the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman Auditorium, the Country Music Hall of Fame, RCA Studio B, and the Gibson garage) each sell their own admission and show tickets directly, so we point you to them rather than resell them. What we can do is get you there: a city sightseeing or trolley tour links the landmarks with downtown and Music Row, so you can build them into a day. Buy the venue tickets from the venues, and check their sites for show schedules and tour times.

They're small-group, on-foot, and story-driven, working the oldest downtown blocks after dark — Printer's Alley and its speakeasy past, the historic honky-tonks and theaters, and the riverfront history. Nashville's ghost tours tie the stories to the real history of the city, and because the guide makes the tour, it's worth reading recent reviews before booking. They run year-round and are busiest around Halloween.

Yes. Belle Meade and Andrew Jackson's Hermitage were plantations — sites of slavery — and both offer guided visits; at Belle Meade, the Journey to Jubilee tour is built around the lives of the enslaved people who ran the estate. For Black cultural heritage, the National Museum of African American Music downtown traces the music African American artists created and shaped, and it sells its own admission, so you buy that directly. Guided civil-rights tours cover the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the movement's local history. Approach the plantation sites as places to learn about this part of American history.