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    • Wayne County Chamber of Commerce
    • Hassell-Carroll Field, Clifton TN

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    • Natchez Trace Wine Trail
    • Natchez Trace
    • Elephant Sanctuary
    • Amish/Mennonite Country
    • Shiloh Civil War Battlefield

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Nashville's Big Back Yard

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Welcome to Nashville's Big Back Yard.

Natchez Trace Wine Trail

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Following along the Natchez Trace Parkway just outside of Nashville, the Natchez Trace Wine Trail includes five wineries showcasing the hospitality and charm of Middle Tennessee.

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Natchez Trace Parkway

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The Natchez Trace Parkway is a 444-mile recreational road and scenic drive through three states. It roughly follows the "Old Natchez Trace" a historic travel corridor used by American Indians, "Kaintucks," European settlers, slave traders, soldiers, and future presidents. Today, people can enjoy not only a scenic drive but also hiking, biking, horseback riding, and camping along the parkway.

 

Natchez Trace Parkway

The Natchez Trace Parkway enjoys a rich history in our nation's development.  It is more than just a road.  

The Natchez Trace Parkway leads you 444 miles through three states and 10,000 years of North American history. 
This scenic parkway links Natchez with Nashville and crosses some of the most beautiful terrain in the states of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. The Parkway was declared a National Scenic Byway and an All-American Road, and has been chosen as one of America’s 10 best biking roads. Open year-round for motorists, hikers and bikers, it is a wonderful way to spend a lazy summer day, or fall, or just about anytime.  Speed limit is 50 mph, but who would want to go faster?  You might miss some of the most wonderful scenery.  The shoulders cloaked in woodland and dotted with interesting sites along the way, make you feel like you are driving through a forest of hardwood trees, just as Meriwether Lewis might have seen it when he was there.

 
 

After visiting the site of Meriwether Lewis’ death and monument that marks his grave, drive into the downtown area to visit the Lewis County Museum of Natural History. The exhibit on Meriwether Lewis includes the key to the cabin where he died. Exhibits on early American Settlement, the Civil War, and Gordonsburg mining will give you a better understanding of what you will see in Lewis County.  The museum also contains one of the largest collections of wild game trophies in the western hemisphere. The recorded voices of Dan and Margaret Maddox, who acquired the collection over half a century, guide you through the exhibits.

Few other places have such a diverse mix of sites all packed into a small area-an Amish and Mennonite settlement and General Store, home to two wineries along the Natchez Trace Wine Trail, working Alpaca and horse farms, a 1960’s commune, antique shops with small town prices, unique clothing and gift stores, specialty restaurants, horseback riding trails, even the nation’s largest natural habitat refuge developed specifically for endangered African and Asian elephants.

 

Hiking

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There are several state parks near Clifton, including Mousetail State Park in Perry County and Pickwick Dam in Hardin County.

Elephant Sanctuary

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Hohenwald is home to the Elephant Sanctuary, but the only way to see the elephants is by visiting the Elephant Welcome Center, just a short drive from Clifton.

 

Visit The Discovery Center

Increasing public knowledge is key to creating a world where elephants no longer live under constant threat of poaching, habitat loss, conflict, or capture. The Elephant Discovery Center offers hands-on self-guided exhibits and educational programming that explores the many ways elephants shape our world.


Upcoming Events

 
 
 
Kids Attend Event at The Elephant Sanctuary's Discovery Center in Hohenwald, Tennessee

HOURS OF OPERATION

Tuesday - Saturday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Closed Sunday and Monday.


Holiday Hours
Closed November 24th-26th
Closed December 23rd-24th
Closed December 31st

The elephants' habitats are closed to the public. Visitors to The Discovery Center will not see or interact with elephants.

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The Elephant Discovery Center is open to walk-in visitors, groups, and fieldtrips.

Amish/Mennonite Country

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Amish and Mennonites have settled into Middle Tennessee, and brought their homemade furniture skills with them, as well as quilting and building and farming.  

There are quite a few retail places of business you can visit in Southern Middle Tennessee, all within a day's drive of Clifton.  We found this page of links: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/amish-visit/ and lower in the page is a list of places readers of the site have provided:

Address: Amish Welcome Center - Wagon Tours, 3943 US-43, Ethridge, TN 38456, USA
Address: Nolensville Feed Mill llc, Amish Country Market, 7280 Nolensville Rd, Nolensville, TN 37135, USA
Address: Yoder's Country Market, Bulls Gap, TN, 15275 W Andrew Johnson Hwy, Bulls Gap, TN 37711, USA
Address: Amish Country Mall, 4011 US-43, Ethridge, TN 38456, USA
Address: 1798 TN-438, Lobelville, TN 37097, USA
 
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Shiloh Civil War Battlefield

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One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was conducted at Shiloh, and almost every junior high school child had a field trip to visit Pickwick Dam.  There is so much to see, between the Civil War monuments and the engineering feats with Pickwick Dam.  

Here is a link to the Shiloh National Military Park showing its list of programs scheduled throughout the year.  You will not run out of things to do if you want to learn about the rift that tore this nation apart.  https://www.nps.gov/shil/index.htm

National Geographic has a detailed spread with a ton of old photographs and recent ones of reenactments:

https://tennesseerivervalleygeotourism.org/

 

 

 

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  • PLAN YOUR TRIP TO CLIFTON
    • Associations
    • Clifton Chamber of Commerce
    • Tennessee RiverLine 652
    • International Rotary Club
    • Main Street Association
  • LODGING
    • Commodore Inn Bed & Breakfast
    • Pillow Street Bed & Breakfast
    • The Bear Inn Resort
    • Ross Creek Landing Cabin Rentals
    • The Landing, 100 Main St.
  • DINING IN AND AROUND CLIFTON
  • AREA DESTINATIONS
    • Nashville's Big Back Yard
    • Natchez Trace Wine Trail
    • Natchez Trace
    • Hiking
    • Elephant Sanctuary
    • Amish/Mennonite Country
    • Shiloh Civil War Battlefield
  • CLIFTON HISTORY
    • Civil War Marker: Occupied River Town
    • Civil War Marker: Forrest Crosses the Tennessee River
    • Historical Sites
City of Clifton, Tennessee City of Clifton, Tennessee

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142 Main Street
P.O. Box 192
Clifton, TN 38425

Phone

+1 (931) 676-3370
+1 (931) 676-5390 FAX

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info@cityofclifton.com 

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