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🌿 Enjoy an urban adventure day with this easy pave 🌿 Enjoy an urban adventure day with this easy paved route…

Ok, if you don’t already know, Nashville has an amazing system of @greenwaysfornashville that stretch all over the city. Kids will 🩵 to bring their bikes or scooters along!

⏱️1.6 miles round trip
🚶‍♀️Paved surface
🏔️Mostly flat
🌳Mostly sunny (with shady rest stops)
🛝Frankie Pierce Park is on the western end, a great spot to play!
🍅And just 1/3-mile north is the @nashvillefarmersmarket! Add this to your walk and explore @bimalltnsp. 

⚠️As a linear path, you can begin at either the western end (Frankie Pierce Park) OR the eastern end at 11th Ave N in the heart of the Gulch. If you’re a local driving to the area, consider starting at the Farmer’s Market to avoid expensive Gulch parking lot fees. 

We had the BEST day or riding, playing, and ending with a pizza lunch special at @goodfellaspie!

👉 SAVE this post and check the grid for the other family-friendly trails around Nashville I’ve shared this summer. This is my last one for now (bye bye, break 😭), but follow @hopsandskips for more ideas year-round!
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#nashvilletrails #nashvillewithkids #urbannature #hiddennashville #explorenashville
Easiest vacation ever ✌️ Our three nights at Reel Easiest vacation ever ✌️

Our three nights at Reelfoot Lake State Park had something for everyone including kids, parents, and grandparents. With plenty of space and amenities in our cabin, we could explore the beauty of the lake knowing we had a comfortable place to return each evening. 

We played cards, cooked family meals, took a ranger-led pontoon tour, and sought out the wildlife—including bald eagles!—that calls Reelfoot home. 

@reelfootlakestatepark has a fascinating history to discover… and some of the most gorgeous sunsets I’ve ever seen. 😍 We’ve stayed in a lot of @tennesseestateparks cabins on multi-generational family vacays, and, truly, this kind of trip is easy for everyone and gives you a front seat to the beauty of Tennessee nature.

And PRO TIP: Reservations can be booked up to a year in advance! So which Tennessee State Park do you plan to visit next?
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#tnstateparks #exploretennessee #multigentravel #naturefamily #cabinvibes
✌️ This week wraps up my summer break, and while i ✌️ This week wraps up my summer break, and while it feels audacious that school could start so soon, it’s my 10th week of vacation; I really can’t complain. 

It has been the most low-key summer break we’ve had in years—no big trip and no major plans. We took weekend roadtrips. The kids went to camp. We spent a lot of time at home and hung around the neighborhood; we saw friends and family constantly; we swam and hiked and ate at restaurants; the girls made up a secret handshake.

I didn’t see an ocean or a foreign city, and I have no photos of faraway places to share—just a camera roll with a million snapshots of everyday moments and silly expressions. 

I’m so often wishing to hop on a plane, to travel without the scheduling obligations of everyday life, but really I know that I could never be a nomad. Home is incomparable. ☺️

(Photos are decidedly NOT from home, nor from this summer, but as much as I enjoyed the last 10 weeks, I really do miss the ocean.)
🌿 This city park has attracted people to its meado 🌿 This city park has attracted people to its meadows for over 10,000 years…

In the northwestern quadrant of our city, Bells Bend Park is (IMO) an under-utilized mecca of wildlife. During our morning visit, we were the only car in the parking lot!

⏱️2.5-miles on the River Loop Trail, but the park has about 9 miles in its small trail system. 
🚶‍♀️Natural, grassy surface
🏔️Very flat (all floodplain!)
🌳Mostly sunny—bring a hat!
🦋The nature center is closed on Mondays, but bathrooms and water are always available!

This park amuses me bc the trails are pretty much just a lawnmower path through meadows. So beautiful  and peaceful, and we saw so much wildlife on our walk!
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#nashvilletrails #nashvilleoutdoors #hikingwithkids #natureplay #nashvillemoms
Dreaming about golden hour in Malibu…✨ . . . #disc Dreaming about golden hour in Malibu…✨
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#discoverla #goldenhourphotography #californiatravel #fujifilmxseries #travelphotography
🌿 A crazy short hike with 10/10 views… The Narrow 🌿 A crazy short hike with 10/10 views…

The Narrows of the Harpeth is another hiking area of @harpethriverstatepark that has a lot to show off in under 2 miles of trails! 

⏱️3 out-and-back trail segments, each under half a mile—the whole trip is only 1.5 miles!
🚶‍♀️Natural surface
🏔️Minor elevation changes on the Harris Street Bridge and Tunnel Trails; steep incline with steep drop-offs on the Bluff Trail (⚠️take into consideration with small children)
🌳Mostly shaded
💦Creek stomping at the end of the Tunnel Trail but signs prohibit swimming (potentially dangerous currents and wildlife!)

For the best starting point, park at the lot by the Harris Street Bridge to minimize your trek to the trailhead!

👉 SAVE this post for your next family outing, and follow along for a new trail idea each Friday this summer!
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“At first the Mississippi seemed to recede from it “At first the Mississippi seemed to recede from its banks, and its waters gathering up like a mountain… It then rising fifteen or twenty feet perpendicularly, and expanding, as it were…the banks were overflowed with a retrograde current, rapid as a torrent […] And lately it has been discovered that a lake was formed on the opposite side of the Mississippi… upwards of one hundred miles in length…”
—letter from Eliza Bryan, March 22, 1816

I had known that Reelfoot Lake is the state’s only large natural lake; what I didn’t know is how recent that happened. On December 16, 1811, an earthquake shook northeast Arkansas. Over the next two months, two more major quakes and their aftershocks hit this area of the New Madrid seismic zone, the most powerful this side of the Rocky Mountains in history. 

It was the hottest week of summer so far, but a beautiful stay at @reelfootlakestatepark as we visited our 40th @tennesseestateparks!
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#tnstateparks #naturaltennessee #lakelife #optoutside #outdoorfamily
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