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Historically beautiful Tennessee Vacation with many rentals spots

On a Tennessee Vacation visit the eastern part of Tennessee which is a series of beautiful ridges and valleys topped by 6,643-foot Clingmans Dome; then the land gently slopes westward to the Mississippi River, the natural boundary between the states of Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas.

Music is to Tennessee what beaches are to Miami or automobiles to Detroit. Toe-tapping Nashville, the state capital, attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year. Focal points are the Grand Ole Opry and Opryland USA. On the Mississippi River, Memphis--which handles a third of the nation's crop of cotton--is the site of Beale Street, immortalized in song and story; this is where W. C. Handy composed his famed "St. Louis Blues" and "Memphis Blues."

Try to visit another part of Memphis on your Tennessee Vacation, the home of Elvis Presley and Graceland where he used to live.

Tennessee also shares with North Carolina the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the 604,000-acre Cherokee National Forest. Both are ideal areas for camping, picnicking, swimming, and hiking. In fact, one of the most spectacular portions of the 2,015-mile Appalachian Trail traverses the Smoky Mountains along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

For a historically enlightening and beautifully scenic drive, the Trail of Tears route is recommended. Beginning 15 miles east of Chattanooga, the route follows the trail of some 13,000 Cherokee Indians uprooted a century and a half ago and marched to Oklahoma. For 260 miles through Tennessee, the trail passes Cleveland, Charleston, Dayton (scene of the 1925 Scopes Trial), Murfreesboro (where the Civil War battle of Stones River was fought), Nashville, and then into Kentucky.

These are some of the many areas you can take in on your Tennessee Vacation, also visit the Shiloh National Military Park where the history of the civil war and one of the famous battles was fought.

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