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Do we have anyone here in the Nashville area? I’ve just never found a good mud spot around here and would love to chat w/ anyone who’s had better luck than I in the area.

Lakersfan928 wrote:Do we have anyone here in the Nashville area? I’ve just never found a good mud spot around here and would love to chat w/ anyone who’s had better luck than I in the area.

Let's just say there's a real reason why one of the official state songs is Rocky Top

Lakersfan928 wrote:Do we have anyone here in the Nashville area? I’ve just never found a good mud spot around here and would love to chat w/ anyone who’s had better luck than I in the area.

I expect you might have better luck if you were more precise about "Nashville area." For example, withing 10 miles?, 50 miles?, 300 miles?

Well, let's just say Middle Tennessee. There's always mud but realistically the best opportunity for the good stuff is going to begin with west of the Tennessee river or that is to say West Tennessee where things flatten out and you're into serious cotton country. You can also go south of Nashville toward where the Tennessee river makes a u-turn in Alabama. But realistically you're not going to find much remarkable in the general Nashville area.

Fred588 wrote:

Lakersfan928 wrote:Do we have anyone here in the Nashville area? I’ve just never found a good mud spot around here and would love to chat w/ anyone who’s had better luck than I in the area.

I expect you might have better luck if you were more precise about "Nashville area." For example, withing 10 miles?, 50 miles?, 300 miles?

Let me amend my earlier post and say there was once a place with some excellent silt very close to the ferry landing that you and I visited once. The area has changed so much since that time, about 50 years ago, that the creek it emptied from barely exists today and is surrounded by apartments. There are probably random moments like that along the Cumberland, I recall one in a bend near Ashland City, but development has taken over. There was once also a fairly modest fly ash dump near the TVA Gallatin Steam plant north of Nashville but that is also now surrounded by civilization and environmental regulations. The smaller waterways in the area like the Harpeth or Stones River are generally all rock or gravel on the bottom. I'd never say never but it's not a great mud friendly area and what there was is now developed.

There is a quarry just north of the Shiloh National Battlefield that looks like it might have mud.

Duncan Edwards wrote:

Fred588 wrote:

Lakersfan928 wrote:Do we have anyone here in the Nashville area? I’ve just never found a good mud spot around here and would love to chat w/ anyone who’s had better luck than I in the area.

I expect you might have better luck if you were more precise about "Nashville area." For example, withing 10 miles?, 50 miles?, 300 miles?

Let me amend my earlier post and say there was once a place with some excellent silt very close to the ferry landing that you and I visited once. The area has changed so much since that time, about 50 years ago, that the creek it emptied from barely exists today and is surrounded by apartments. There are probably random moments like that along the Cumberland, I recall one in a bend near Ashland City, but development has taken over. There was once also a fairly modest fly ash dump near the TVA Gallatin Steam plant north of Nashville but that is also now surrounded by civilization and environmental regulations. The smaller waterways in the area like the Harpeth or Stones River are generally all rock or gravel on the bottom. I'd never say never but it's not a great mud friendly area and what there was is now developed.

Yeah, I don’t generally disclose my exact location on here but I live in the middle Tennessee area south of Nashville. Interesting, how far west is the sweet spot? I’m actually from central Arkansas and still return to that area quite regularly so would love to find something between the two or even back in Arkansas. I really haven’t had too much success there either, but I’ll admit I was a little too anxious to do much exploring back when I was younger. Thanks for the response!

Lakersfan928 wrote:

Duncan Edwards wrote:

Fred588 wrote:

Lakersfan928 wrote:Do we have anyone here in the Nashville area? I’ve just never found a good mud spot around here and would love to chat w/ anyone who’s had better luck than I in the area.

I expect you might have better luck if you were more precise about "Nashville area." For example, withing 10 miles?, 50 miles?, 300 miles?

Let me amend my earlier post and say there was once a place with some excellent silt very close to the ferry landing that you and I visited once. The area has changed so much since that time, about 50 years ago, that the creek it emptied from barely exists today and is surrounded by apartments. There are probably random moments like that along the Cumberland, I recall one in a bend near Ashland City, but development has taken over. There was once also a fairly modest fly ash dump near the TVA Gallatin Steam plant north of Nashville but that is also now surrounded by civilization and environmental regulations. The smaller waterways in the area like the Harpeth or Stones River are generally all rock or gravel on the bottom. I'd never say never but it's not a great mud friendly area and what there was is now developed.

Yeah, I don’t generally disclose my exact location on here but I live in the middle Tennessee area south of Nashville. Interesting, how far west is the sweet spot? I’m actually from central Arkansas and still return to that area quite regularly so would love to find something between the two or even back in Arkansas. I really haven’t had too much success there either, but I’ll admit I was a little too anxious to do much exploring back when I was younger. Thanks for the response!

Well, the pits are man-made but Studio 588 is right there in north, central Arkansas.