Neighboring Cities - AmericInn® of Jonesborough, TN
Welcome to the Cities Neighboring our Jonesborough Tennessee Hotel
Our Jonesborough hotel is walking distance to downtown Jonesborough, which is the oldest town in Tennessee and is known as the home of the International Story Telling Center. Here you will find great shopping and tasty restaurants including The Bistro, Cranberry Thistle, and Main Street Café. Positive Solutions will offer you a personal tour of our unique town with advance reservations or you many want to take our Ghost Tour Walk through the historic area. The Wedding Loft is a great place if you are planning your wedding and want a unique experience. For the golf enthusiast, the Jonesborough area is home to some of the best Tennessee has to offer, The Ridges, The Crossings, and Graysburg Hills Golf Course. After a day of golf you might want to relax with a nice massage and be pampered at the Tranquil Haven Spa.
Gracious Design offers many classes and has a full time designer on staff. They are downtown and they have some great ideas for decorating your home.
The Sewing Bee, a certified Pfaff dealer also sells Tennessee Quilts. They offer unique classes and have beautiful fabric and supplies for making quilts. They have over 8000 bolts of fabric and bring in nationally known teachers for their classes.
Come and shake a leg at Contra Dancing the first and third Saturday of each Month. It is fun for the whole family. Music on the Square May through September offers a variety of live music. In the summer months visit Wetlands Water Park. The kids will love it!
Meeting facilities are available at the AmericInn, Jonesborough Visitor Center, Parson’s Table, and at Storytelling Center.
If you like to journey out in the afternoons Asheville, NC home of the famous Biltmore House and Abingdon, VA home of the Barter Theatre is just an hour away. Stay Sunday night and get 50% off our week-end rate.
Bristol,Tennessee
Bristol is a located in Sullivan County, Tennessee. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 24,821. It is the twin city of Bristol, Virginia, just across the state line, which runs down the middle of State Street. Along with Kingsport, Tennessee and Johnson City, Tennessee the Bristol’s form the Tri-Cities. Bristol is probably best known for being the site of the first commercial recordings of country music, showcasing Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and later a favorite venue of the legendary mountain musician Uncle Charlie Osborne. Bristol is the birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford. Bristol is the site of a NASCAR short track which routinely sells out more than 160,000 seats twice annually. Tickets to Bristol Motor Speedway and Dukes Fest, a two day festival showcasing the 1980s television show "Dukes of Hazard" are highly sought-after. The city is also the home of King College.
Kingsport, Tennessee
Kingsport's popular Greenbelt is a 10-mile walking and biking trail that extends from one end of the city to the other, winding its way along the Holston River and through beautiful open meadows, marshlands, historic sites, flower gardens, quaint neighborhoods and even shopping and eating destinations. The historic 200-mile Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail started in Kingsport and blazed the pathway to the western frontier for hundreds of thousands of settlers. Kingsport is home to Warriors Path State Park, the most visited state park in Tennessee. Kingsport is home to Bays Mountain Park, a 3,500-acre nature preserve with 22 miles of hiking and biking trials, a 44-acre reservoir lake, nature center and museum, planetarium and native wildlife habitats. Bays Mountain is the nation's largest municipally-owned park. Kingsport is home to Fun Fest, a nine-day summer family festival that is consistently ranked as one of the Top 20 Events to attend in the Southeast in July by the Southeast Tourism Society. More than 180,000 people attend more than 100 Fun Fest events each year. The Fun Fest Crazy 8’s Road Race, which holds both men’s and women’s 8-K world records, was listed by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine as one of the Top Five Best Road Races in the South.
Erwin, Tennessee
Erwin is a great area for fun and beautiful mountains. If you like white water rafting, kayaking, horseback riding or hiking, Erwin is the place for you. Just 18 miles from our Jonesborough hotel, it is family fun for everyone. Enjoy the famous apple festival in October every year.
Johnson City, Tennessee
Only minutes from the AmericInn Jonesborough hotel Johnson City is the center for tourism and business in Northeast Tennessee. Once a train depot, Johnson City is now home to many new companies and restaurants with a diversified culture mixed with breathtaking mountain landscape and beautiful Watauga River. Home to East Tennessee State University, the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, Freedom Hall, Hands On Museum, Tipton’ Haynes Historic Site and the Fun Exposition and the B Carroll Reece Museum.
Elizabethton, Tennessee
Elizabethton is the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee. It is the historical site of the first independent settlement on American soil (1772) and located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original thirteen British colonies in America.
Greeneville, Tennessee
The county seat of Greene County, Greeneville was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene. Incidentally, it is the only town with this spelling in the United States, although there are numerous U.S. towns named Greenville. The town was the capital of the short-lived State of Franklin in the 18th-century history of the Tennessee region. Greeneville is notable as the town where President Andrew Johnson began his political career when elected from his trade as a tailor. He and his family lived there most of his adult years. It was an area of strong abolitionist and Unionist views and yeomen farmers, an environment which influenced Johnson's outlook.
