1. Find your show(s)
With a wide spectrum of musical genres, you're bound to find an upcoming show that you'll love at The Caverns. Check out their upcoming schedule, then return here to plan the rest of your trip!
And The Caverns isn't the only music venue in the area. Check out these other options to add more nightlife to your trip...
Shenanigans Live Music
Restaurant & pub featuring sandwiches, pizza and craft beers with a back room "speakeasy" serving fine cocktails and live performance venue featuring regionally touring bands.
Music on the Mountain at The Smoke House Patio Grill
Features some of the best artists and songwriters from Nashville every Friday night from 6:30 to 9:30 and every Saturday night from 4:30 to 9:30. Also serving hot food and cold beer, with indoor and outdoor seating options.
Choose Your Music + Mountain Adventure
My bucket-list vacation:
One of my favorite bands playing underground... in an actual cave!
Great hiking with waterfalls and incredible bluff overlooks
Cool place to stay and great food
Check, check and check!
The Caverns is a world-renowned destination for live music, home of the PBS television series The Caverns Sessions. Revel in the prehistoric natural acoustics and otherworldly beauty of "Big Mouth Cave," a bucket list experience that keeps fans coming back to The Caverns time and again for “The Greatest Show Under Earth.”
Tennessee's South Cumberland is an unspoiled part of southern Appalachia, full of dramatic 1,000-foot sandstone cliffs with dozens of majestic waterfalls surrounded by lush forests. With 150 miles of hiking trails, you can choose any level of experience, from a quick and easy stroll to a multi-day back country experience.
Here's how to choose your music + mountain adventure in 4 easy steps...
2. Decide what to see and how long to stay
You'll want to book at least a weekend, but there's so much to see and do that you might need a week!
The Caverns Cave Tours
Daily cave tours include one of the largest underground rooms in the world at over 3 football fields long and a behind-the-scenes tour of the music venue. Thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies can take an Adventure Cave Tour to explore deep portions of The Caverns with seasoned cave guides.
Greeter Falls
A moderate-to-challenging one-mile out-and-back trail with a spiral staircase, taking you to Greeter Falls. Also check out the (easier) spur trail to the Blue Hole swimming area, as well as some smaller waterfalls and historic sites. Access this adventure from the Savage Gulf West Trailhead.
Grundy Forest Loop/CCC Camp
A moderate 3-mile trek with swimming holes, history, geology, giant hemlocks and cascading streams with an optional 1/3-mile walk through the site of a 1930s CCC camp. Access this adventure from the Fiery Gizzard North Trailhead.
Fiery Gizzard Trail, a 2-day Adventure
Ranked as one of the top 25 backpacking trails in the United States by Backpacker magazine, "The Gizz" features cascading streams, numerous waterfalls, panoramic overlooks, extremely rocky gorges, gentle slopes and lush woodlands. Use either the Fiery Gizzard North or Fiery Gizzard South trailheads to begin this adventure!
3. Book a cool place to stay
What's your vibe? Tree loft with a bluff view? Glass dome in the woods? Tiny home on a lake? Luxurious vacation home?... We've got you covered!
Tree Lofts
Luxurious modern loft cabins overlooking the bluff in Beersheba Springs
Terralodge
Luxury domes and treehouses in a wooded setting
The Falls at Sewanee Creek
Unique cabins and glamping options with private waterfall, trails & outdoor movie theater
South Cumberland Getaways
SCG is the fastest growing vacation rental management company in the region.
The Grove Airstream Campground
3 vintage Airstream trailers in a private campground
Retreat Vacations by Oakstone
This new luxury, tiny home mountain community offers over 50 vacation homes. Includes 1/2/3 bedrooms, fire pits, hiking trails, playground, biking, canoe/kayak rentals, hot tubs & gathering areas.
Camp Swann
10 cabins each with their own unique theme, nestled right next Grundy Lakes
4. Plan your eats
Casual or classy, quick bite or lingering dinner... your taste buds will thank you!
Mountain Top Restaurant & Catering
Catering formal and informal events, from weddings to hors d’oeuvre parties, with restaurant space available for private events.
Mountain Goat Market
Popular casual restaurant with sandwiches, pizza and catering available.
Judith
Fine dining restaurant with space available for private events.
Hwy 56 Coffee, Ice Cream & Creative Eats
Coffee, ice cream & creative eats with a changing menu of specialty items
LUNCH
Farm-to-table restaurant with a rotating breakfast & lunch menu featuring local farmers & provisioners and a market for frozen meals, local meats, cheeses, craft beer, crafts & other gifts.
Dutch Maid Bakery
The oldest family-owned bakery in Tennessee
Hank's Corner Grille
Steaks, burgers, wings & pizza with a full bar
High Point Restaurant
Built inside a 1929 mansion that presumably once was financed by Al Capone, High Point serves a menu of traditional gourmet dishes including Brie en Croute, Blackened Salmon Oscar and Black Thai Duck.