Author: Ivy Redmond

The best part of picking a pumpkin in Tennessee usually happens before anyone touches a pumpkin. It’s the moment a tractor rumbles to life, a…

I pulled off a quiet Tennessee highway expecting a boat ramp and maybe a picnic table. What I got instead was a horizon full of…

There’s a stretch of Tennessee mountain road where nearly everyone pulls over for the same reason: a cold, rocky stream and a picnic table. Almost…

Somewhere in Tennessee there is a small wooden house on a quiet residential street where people line up before the door even unlocks. There is…

Some of the best Tennessee afternoons start by accident. You take a highway east because it looks shorter on the map, and forty minutes later…

Somewhere between a gas station biscuit and a wrong turn onto a gravel county road in Tennessee, the day stopped being about getting anywhere. Hand-painted…

Somewhere in Tennessee there is a store that gives you a plastic bag, points at a wall of candy bins, and lets you decide how…

The smell hits you before the door even closes behind you: warm sugar, yeast, and something fruity bubbling in a fryer somewhere in the back….

Some of the best stops in Tennessee do not announce themselves with billboards. There is a four-story building in East Tennessee where a wall of…

Somewhere along a busy Tennessee highway, between the pancake houses and the go-kart tracks, sits a small rock shop that families drive past a hundred…

Some of the best Saturdays in Tennessee start with a wrong turn and a gravel parking lot. You walk in expecting folding tables of junk…

Some Tennessee buildings tell you exactly what they were before they became famous. Walk into this one and the first thing you notice is the…

Three rusting Ferris wheels and a scorched rocket ship are not what most people expect to see from an interstate in Tennessee. Pull off at…

There is a spot in East Tennessee where a giant gold ball sits on a tower, and from the top you can see mountains on…

Somewhere between a gas stop and a wrong turn, I ended up in a Tennessee building full of glass cabinets, old records, and furniture older…

Somewhere in Middle Tennessee, just off the interstate, sits a low fifty-year-old building that most drivers blow right past on their way to somewhere flashier….

Somewhere in the Tennessee mountains, past a busy campground and a bend in a cold river, sits a street of old vacation homes with their…

The screen door slapped shut behind me somewhere on a two-lane Tennessee highway, and twenty minutes later I walked out with a fried bologna sandwich,…

Rain has a way of flattening a Tennessee Saturday before it even starts, and the kids notice first. What saved one of ours was pulling…

Some of the best meals in Tennessee happen in buildings that look like they might not even be open. Picture a low storefront on a…

Somewhere on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, a road winds past farm fields and pine stands and then drops you at a railing where the…

Sometimes the best Saturday in Tennessee costs about as much as a fast food lunch. I went looking for one specific thing, a plain jacket,…

Somewhere between the whitewater rafting signs and the pasture fences of southeastern Tennessee, there is a working farm where a kangaroo will lean in and…

I pulled off a northeast Tennessee highway looking for nothing more ambitious than a sandwich and a place to stretch my legs. What I found…

Somewhere in the rolling farmland of middle Tennessee, past the gas stations and hay bales, there’s a gate that opens onto about 50 rescued animals…