Music City Greenways super fun way to get fit

As a native Nashvillian, I was so pleased to find out last year that the City has done amazing work to expand the area's greenway system in Middle Tennessee.   My sis lives in East Nashville about 2 miles from the Titan Stadium & 1.5 miles from Shelby Bottoms park and greenway.    It is one of the ones that makes up a bigger Music City Greenway system.  This greenway is right next to the Cumberland River and does connect to a trail that goes by the Titum Stadium  My hubby and 11 year old Gracie met up with two knox buddies Sharon and Karen and headed out Shelby Bottoms and found it fairly flat and wide.  The greenway has several loops around a nature center then on to a beautiful pedestrian walkway bridge that links over to Two Rivers park and skateboard area.  From here the trail rolls some on gentle slopes and connects to a Greenway called Stone River.   About 2 miles into it you bike around a few pretty farms and can see where the Cumberland and Stone River converges.   Then it winds along the outer edge of a gorgeous large farm with cows and pretty wildflowers this time of year.   A short section consists of shared use of a side road that appears to be just used for this farm.   One side of the road you can see a golf course and an old mansion close to the Clover Bottom section of Nashville.   We ended up next to Lebanon road and Kolhs shopping area.  We chose to keep going a few miles along the Stone River and ended up coming out at the end of that part which was Percy Priest Dam.   We headed back to the Kohls parking lot and rode to the end where we found a jack in the box just in time for lunch.  (And we were living right as that is the only time it rained while we were in eating a pretty good western salad w/ chicken.   Then we headed back to shelby bottoms and our cars.  Gracie always enjoys stopping at the Nature Center there where they had an interesting Lake Sturgeon on display, which is a prehistoric looking fish being reintroduced into the Tennessee Rivers. They have some maps and other info about Nashville parks including programs for kids in the summer.  So we plan to head back.  And I am glad that Knoxville is also trying to work on getting some of our greenway systems linked.   For more info on greenways, bike groups in our area www.outdoorknoxville.com has links and to reach me call Covenant Call Center at 541-4500 and you can ask them for local greenway maps of knox county/city or Blount County parks/rec