Keith asked:
>>>are most of the attractions within walking distance of each other, or
will we be driving between them?
For the downtown attractions in Memphis, you can walk, or you can take
the trolley line, e.g., to the Civil Rights Museum just off South Main
(get off at the fire station on the bend; you can see it just behind
there; in fact, that fire station figures into some of the weirder
conspiracy tales), or the Madison Ave line out to Marshall and see Sun
Studios. (Daytime only.) Because Tom Lee Park will be closed to the
general public much of May, you could take the riverside trolley to the
south end of town and walk back to downtown along the bluff walk, which
looks over Tom Lee and the river (you'll find public access between some
of the houses on the river). For the zoo, Graceland, and probably
Harbortown, you'll need a car, but they're all easy driving. The
riverside trolley does go near the Harbortown (Auction Street) bridge,
but you'd have to walk across.
In Nashville, the downtown attractions are a bit more distant and
strenuous walk (hills, you know), but doable. Opryland, Percy Warner
Park, Franklin, and the Hermitage will all require a car. A light rail
line just opened but I don't believe it connects to any of those places.
The downtowns in both cities can be walked from one end to the other;
depends, especially in Nashville, just how much walking you want to do.
Correction to previous post: Lolo's and McEwen's restaurants in Memphis
are on Monroe, not Madison (one street over).
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