Paddling near Nashville, TN

Davidson County sits entirely within the Cumberland River drainage, with the Cumberland River cutting east-to-west through downtown Nashville and joined by the Stones River just upstream. Public access points open up 87.1 miles of paddling on county rivers, while the 14,200-acre J. Percy Priest Reservoir and the Class I Harpeth River give the area one of the broadest urban-to-rural paddling menus in the South.