Day trips from Nashville · Town
Lynchburg and the Jack Daniel Distillery
72 miles from downtown Nashville · about 1 hour 20 minutes
Moore County, TN
Lynchburg is a town of about six thousand built around a courthouse square and the oldest registered distillery in the United States. The county is still dry, which is a fact visitors find hard to believe while standing in the middle of it.
- Visitor center
- 133 Lynchburg Highway, Lynchburg, TN
- Distillery Tour
- $35, 1.8 hours, under 21 permitted, six samples
- Bonded Tour
- $55, 2 hours, 21 and over, daily at 2:40pm
- A Day at Jack
- $160, 5 hours, includes lunch at Miss Mary Bobo’s
Permits, fees and access
Visitor center is open daily 9am to 5pm. Book tours in advance. The tours that include tasting are twenty-one and over with valid photo ID; the standard Distillery Tour admits under twenty-ones. Closed New Year’s Eve and Day, Martin Luther King Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas.
One thing to know first
The square is small and it is the whole town, so this pairs better with Bell Buckle or Tims Ford than it does with a full day on its own.
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.
I keep this list because it is genuinely how people spend weekends here, and because almost every guide to it is out of date.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.