Day trips from Nashville · Park
Bledsoe Creek State Park
37 miles from downtown Nashville · about 55 minutes
Tennessee State Parks, Sumner County, near Gallatin, TN
Bledsoe Creek is a compact 169-acre park on an arm of Old Hickory Lake near Gallatin, with a seventy-seven site campground and about five miles of trail. What makes it worth the drive is the cluster of eighteenth-century history around it.
- Size
- 169 acres
- Campground
- 77 sites
- Trails
- Shoreline 1.5 miles, High Ridge 1.3 miles
- Fee
- Free
Permits, fees and access
Free entry, two boat ramps, wildlife observation deck.
One thing to know first
The park itself is small. Plan it alongside Wynnewood, Cragfont and Bledsoe’s Fort Historic Park nearby, or you will be done in an hour.
Access rules, fees and closures verified August 15, 2026 against the agency that manages this place. They change, sometimes without notice. Check before you drive.
The neighborhoods closest to it
If this is the kind of Saturday you want a short drive from your front door, these are the parts of Middle Tennessee that put you nearest to it.
I keep this list because it is genuinely how people spend weekends here, and because almost every guide to it is out of date. If you are weighing a move to Middle Tennessee and want to know which part of it puts you closest to the things you actually like, ask me. No pitch.