Tennessee Guided Motorcycle Tour™ - Guided Motorcycle Tour

Day 1 : Knoxville Arrival

Your Eaglerider representative will shuttle you from the Knoxville airport to your hotel. That evening enjoy a welcome dinner with your tour guide where you’ll be given a detailed itinerary for your trip. Overnight.

Day 2 : Knoxville - Chattanooga

Meet at Eaglerider to pick-up our bikes. Get ready to ride! We will leave Knoxville heading west, first stopping at the historic Fort Southwest Point in Kingston overlooking the beautiful Tennessee River. After a brief rest we continue on through sleepy farmlands, sweeping curves and the gentle straights of the Cumberland Plateau and the Sequatchie Valley. Dramatic vistas and wild winding roads take us over Signal Mountain and into Chattanooga. We will explore the Scenic City’s diverse waterfront for food and entertainment and shopping. Overnight.

Day 3 : Chattanooga - Cherokee

Depart Chattanooga for a day of riding that you won’t soon forget! If beauty and excitement were a language, this day would speak it eloquently. Be prepared for a full day which includes a ride through the clouds on the Cherohala Scenic Skyway (the best kept secret in the south). Today our ride highlights through Deals Gap. Tonight we celebrate our bragging rights in style at the exciting, entertaining Harrah’s Cherokee Casino for dinner and overnight.

Day 4 : Cherokee - Boone

We’re up and moving’ this morning for a ride along the panoramic Blue Ridge Parkway. Just outside Maggie Valley, North Carolina we stop for a unique diversion. Step back into history at the Wheels Through Time Museum to view an astonishing collection of vintage transportation. This eye candy includes a display of over 250 rare American motorcycles; 90% of which are operated regularly! Back on the Parkway again we will ride along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountain where it encompasses some of the oldest settlements of both pre-historic and pioneer life. Along the Parkway are many scenic overlooks, visitor center exhibits and restored historic structures. Among the earliest inhabitants of the Blue Ridge were the Cherokee, Saponi, Monacan, and Tutelo Indian tribes that left artifacts and changes in the landscape as evidence of their existence. We end our day in the ski lodge areas in the vicinity of Grandfather Mountain.

Day 5 : Boone

The Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and Gathering of Scottish Clans. This annual event was created to restore interest in traditional dancing, piping, athletic achievement and Gaelic culture. This is a unique opportunity to experience competition for Scottish country dancing, Scottish fiddling, Scottish harp of course, Scottish bagpipes! Enjoy everything from Highland wrestling to a Celtic Rock Concert. Even if your family name does not start with an “O”, you’ll claim Scottish heritage before we leave! As an alternative to the Highland Games, there will be a guided tour of the many other outstanding natural wonders that surround the Grandfather Mountain.

Day 6 : Boone - Bristol

Depart Grandfather Mountain by way of local scenic roads. Leaving the ski resort areas we enter Tennessee through the Cherokee National Forest. After crossing the Appalachian Trail, we traverse the Iron Mountains and the Holston Mountain into Bristol, Virginia. Bristol is synonymous with automobile racing! Bristol Motor Speedway and Dragway offer track tours around the most popular motorsports complex in the country. Thunder Valley is home of the legendary Bristol Dragway. On this quarter-mile strip, top fuelers can turn 320 mph. This is also home of “The World’s Fastest Half-Mile!“ with it’s famous 36 degree banked turns. Can you spell NASCAR?

Day 7 : Bristol - Big Southfork

We travel through Virginia to spend the day enjoying the rugged mountains of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. We will appreciate the diversity of the lifestyles, mountain roads, highways and backwoods. The climax to this day’s ride will culminate at the Cumberland Falls State Park for dinner and overnight

Day 8 : Big Southfork - Cookeville

We continue travel through Daniel Boone National Forest into Tennessee where we enter Big Southfork National River and Recreational Area. You will agree we have saved the best for last as we consume the tranquil beauty of the scenic Obed River and the mountain streams, which feed it. The locals have a difficult time distinguishing between a creek, stream, brook, or branch but regardless of what we call it; you’ll call it awesome! Gradual elevation changes take us to the rolling ridges back to the Cumberland Plateau where we overnight in Cookeville.

Day 9 : Cookeville - Knoxville

Leaving the Cumberland Plateau, we drop into the Tennessee Valley through the winding roads that lead us to the “Atomic City”. After touring American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee we will carefully select our return route to Eaglerider, Knoxville.

Day 10 : Knoxville Departure

Farewell Breakfast and final farewell to newfound friends and Eaglerider staff. Transportation to airport.