Nashville's Big Back Yard

Overview

Nashville's Big Back Yard is a region between Nashville, Tennessee and Muscle Shoals, Alabama anchored by 100 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway and made up of 12 connected communities with populations under 5,000 people. While you're visiting Columbia, consider checking out these 12 communities, Especially our neighbors, Mount Pleasant, Hampshire, and Santa Fe, located just west of Columbia, almost perfectly half way in between Nashville and Muscle Shoals in Nashville's Big Back Yard!