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Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway
Nine-hundred-acre floodplain greenway and nature center once slated to become a private landfill.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Shelby Bottoms Nature Center and Greenway in Nashville traces how nine hundred fifty acres of Cumberland River bottomland almost became a private landfill instead of a park. It follows the farming families who worked this floodplain through the early nineteen nineties and the competing schemes to dredge it for housing or sell it for trash. The nature center at the main trailhead now sits on that same reclaimed ground, teaching visitors about the herons and beavers that live along the river.
This audio guide was created using AI.