Tennessee River trails could boost tourism in Knoxville, Alabama

Tennessee River trails could boost tourism in Knoxville, Alabama

When Brad Collett gave his landscape architecture students a project to redesign the Tennessee River Valley, he had no idea they would come up with an idea that could change the area’s relationship with one of its essential natural resources.

Nearly six years later, what began as a classroom project in 2016 has blossomed into a dynamic vision for a trail system that could inject more than $104 million into Tennessee and surrounding state economies. .

The goal: to transform the Tennessee River and the public lands that connect to it into the next great trail system in North America.

Tennessee RiverLine, an emergent trail system following 652 miles of the Tennessee River, reframes the natural resource as a tourism hub and reconnects communities to the water in their backyards.


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