Wasioto Park

About this audio guide

This guide to Wasioto Park in Nashville follows the Cumberland riverfront green space from a polluted seventeen-acre parking lot through the flood that reshaped how Nashville builds along the water, to the twenty twenty-four decision to give the park back the Cumberland's original Shawnee name. You'll hear from the Indigenous leader who spoke at the renaming vote and meet the engineers who redesigned the ground to work with flooding rather than against it. Stand at the rail above the spray ground for the best view of the water this story turns on.