Jacob's Guidebook
Food scene
Murfreesboro Saturday Market
Our farmer’s market runs through October 31st and is every Saturday.
Camino Real
105 Lasseter DriveBest Mexican food nearby, A Local Favorite.
Best BBQ in town, and it's only 5 minutes away from the AirBNB. Closed on Sundays, and Mondays. Tuesdays are 1/2 price bbq sandwich day, and try the WINGS!
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Slick Pig BBQ
1920 East Main StreetBest BBQ in town, and it's only 5 minutes away from the AirBNB. Closed on Sundays, and Mondays. Tuesdays are 1/2 price bbq sandwich day, and try the WINGS!
Local Brewery
This is right down the road from our little home.
Hop Springs is Middle Tennessee's first ever Beer Park! Go experience their family and dog friendly taproom and property- Hop Springs; where adventure flows throughout 83 acres just on the out-skirts of Murfreesboro, TN."
They have a frisbee golf course too!
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Hop Springs
6790 John Bragg HwyThis is right down the road from our little home.
Hop Springs is Middle Tennessee's first ever Beer Park! Go experience their family and dog friendly taproom and property- Hop Springs; where adventure flows throughout 83 acres just on the out-skirts of Murfreesboro, TN."
They have a frisbee golf course too!
Mayday Brewery
521 Old Salem RdSightseeing
This is a great close hiking trail through one of our state natural areas. Very easy hike, although rocky terrain so watch your step.
Flat Rock Cedar Glade and Barrens is an 846-acre natural area in Rutherford County. It is located about eight miles east of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in the geographic center of the Central Basin. Flat Rock supports a mosaic of forest types, oak barrens, open grassland barrens, and cedar glades, including federal and state-listed plant species and glade endemic species. These glades are characterized by exposed limestone that is typically interspersed with cedar-oak-hickory forest that occurs in deeper soils. This limestone, with its many sinkholes, is a karst topography commonly associated with glades.
Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens support a diversity of annual grasses, including sporobolus and aristida. Rare plants associated with these cedar glades include Tennessee milk-vetch (Astragalus tennesseensis), Missouri primrose (Oenothera missouriensis), and limestone fame-flower (Talinum calcaricum). Small creek tributaries and flat gravelly wash areas provide specialized habitat for rare plants, including the federally endangered leafy prairie-clover (Dalea foliosa), the state-listed yellow sunnybells (Schoenolirion croceum), low nut rush (Scleria verticillata), and Boykin's milkwort (Polygala boykinii). Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) and cedar trees occur in pockets of deep soil scattered across the glades. Open grassland barrens found in deeper soils are dominated by little bluestem and side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula). Flat Rock barrens support numerous state-listed species, including wavy-leaf purple coneflower (Echinacea simulata), southern prairie-dock (Silphium pinnatifidum) and slender blazing-star (Liatris cylindracea). These same species occur in the open canopy post oak forest areas referred to as an "oak barrens." Flat Rock is also significant as the type location for the federally listed Pyne's ground-plum (Astragalus bibullatus).
Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens is one of Tennessee's most ecologically significant natural areas and is an important research natural area. It is located only a few miles from Middle Tennessee State University.
Site Management
Division of Natural Areas, William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower, 312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue, 2nd Floor, Nashville, TN 37243, phone (615) 532-0431
Public Access
Open to the Public - Full Access
Parking and hiking trails are provided.
Parking: Yes
Trail: Yes
Dogs on Leash: Yes
Hunting: No
Fishing: No
Camping: No
Directions
From I-24 exit 81 B and go about one-quarter mile on Church St. and turn right on S. Rutherford Blvd. and then proceed approximately five miles and turn right at Greenland and proceed three miles east on Halls Hill Pike, then turn right on Factory Rd. Follow Factory Rd for one mile to the parking lot on the right.
Flat Rock Class II State Natural Area
Factory RoadThis is a great close hiking trail through one of our state natural areas. Very easy hike, although rocky terrain so watch your step.
Flat Rock Cedar Glade and Barrens is an 846-acre natural area in Rutherford County. It is located about eight miles east of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in the geographic center of the Central Basin. Flat Rock supports a mosaic of forest types, oak barrens, open grassland barrens, and cedar glades, including federal and state-listed plant species and glade endemic species. These glades are characterized by exposed limestone that is typically interspersed with cedar-oak-hickory forest that occurs in deeper soils. This limestone, with its many sinkholes, is a karst topography commonly associated with glades.
Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens support a diversity of annual grasses, including sporobolus and aristida. Rare plants associated with these cedar glades include Tennessee milk-vetch (Astragalus tennesseensis), Missouri primrose (Oenothera missouriensis), and limestone fame-flower (Talinum calcaricum). Small creek tributaries and flat gravelly wash areas provide specialized habitat for rare plants, including the federally endangered leafy prairie-clover (Dalea foliosa), the state-listed yellow sunnybells (Schoenolirion croceum), low nut rush (Scleria verticillata), and Boykin's milkwort (Polygala boykinii). Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) and cedar trees occur in pockets of deep soil scattered across the glades. Open grassland barrens found in deeper soils are dominated by little bluestem and side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula). Flat Rock barrens support numerous state-listed species, including wavy-leaf purple coneflower (Echinacea simulata), southern prairie-dock (Silphium pinnatifidum) and slender blazing-star (Liatris cylindracea). These same species occur in the open canopy post oak forest areas referred to as an "oak barrens." Flat Rock is also significant as the type location for the federally listed Pyne's ground-plum (Astragalus bibullatus).
Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens is one of Tennessee's most ecologically significant natural areas and is an important research natural area. It is located only a few miles from Middle Tennessee State University.
Site Management
Division of Natural Areas, William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower, 312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue, 2nd Floor, Nashville, TN 37243, phone (615) 532-0431
Public Access
Open to the Public - Full Access
Parking and hiking trails are provided.
Parking: Yes
Trail: Yes
Dogs on Leash: Yes
Hunting: No
Fishing: No
Camping: No
Directions
From I-24 exit 81 B and go about one-quarter mile on Church St. and turn right on S. Rutherford Blvd. and then proceed approximately five miles and turn right at Greenland and proceed three miles east on Halls Hill Pike, then turn right on Factory Rd. Follow Factory Rd for one mile to the parking lot on the right.
Oaklands Mansion
900 N Maney Avehttps://www.oaklandsmansion.org/
Stones River National Battlefield
3501 Old Nashville Hwyhttps://www.nps.gov/stri/index.htm
Entertainment
Moonlight Drive in is the best! It’s only 10 minutes down the road in a quaint little town called Woodbury. You will love the drive through the rolling hills and the drive in is a blade from the past. They are only open seasonally, so check their website.
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The Moonlite Drive-In
931 W Main StMoonlight Drive in is the best! It’s only 10 minutes down the road in a quaint little town called Woodbury. You will love the drive through the rolling hills and the drive in is a blade from the past. They are only open seasonally, so check their website.
Everyone loves moonshiners, especially legal moonshiners. Haha Go check out the Short Mountain Distillery, have lunch on the patio, try their home grown grass fed beef.
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Short Mountain Distillery
8280 Short Mountain RdEveryone loves moonshiners, especially legal moonshiners. Haha Go check out the Short Mountain Distillery, have lunch on the patio, try their home grown grass fed beef.
Need something to do, check out the largest climbing gym in the state with 16,000 sf of climbing walls! You're welcome, the kid zone is awesome too for younger children with self belay devices.
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Climb Murfreesboro
1660 Memorial BlvdNeed something to do, check out the largest climbing gym in the state with 16,000 sf of climbing walls! You're welcome, the kid zone is awesome too for younger children with self belay devices.
Put Put golf, go carts, video games, what more can I say.
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Go USA Fun Park
2270 Armory DrPut Put golf, go carts, video games, what more can I say.
Go see a movie at a local favorite, not the big AMC chain theater. Yes its cheaper!
Premiere 6 Theatre
810 NW Broad StGo see a movie at a local favorite, not the big AMC chain theater. Yes its cheaper!
Murfreesboro Strike and Spare
1720 Old Fort ParkwayBowling, Games, Drinks, Food
SkateCenter West
849 W College StYes we have a skating rink!
City/town information
Murfreesboro
https://visitrutherfordtn.com/events/