Music Valley Drive is a road of campground gates and hookup rows, and at the top of the hour a shuttle idles at the gate, filling with people headed downtown. Behind it the rigs stay where they've been all week, awnings out, air running, supper dishes drying by the sink. The Grand Ole Opry and Opry Mills are a few miles up the same road, and on cooler fall nights there's live music back at the park by the time the shuttle brings everyone home.
Music City works well from a motorhome for exactly this reason. Six people sleep aboard, breakfast is eggs at the dinette before anyone has found their shoes, and the rig never has to go downtown at all. Three campgrounds line this stretch of the valley, so a family can run the whole week from one site and save the driving for the lake.
Nashville KOA and Two Rivers, with the shuttle into downtown
Most of the week happens between two parks a short way apart on the same road. Nashville KOA has back-in and pull-through sites, many on full hookups up to 50 amps, and a downtown shuttle that leaves from the campground. Two Rivers Campground lists 30-amp sites with and without sewer, and its shuttle runs on the hour and the half hour, as of October 2026.
The days settle into an easy pattern, with slow mornings at the site, afternoons on the Opry side of the valley, and the shuttle handling nights downtown so nobody ends a late set behind the wheel of a motorhome. Reserve the site before the rig and ask the park for the pad's length, since that number decides how long a motorhome you can bring.
Families coming down I-65 from the north can base at Grand Ole RV Resort and Market in Goodlettsville instead. It has full hookups at 30 and 50 amps and pull-throughs, and with no shuttle of its own, downtown nights from there run on rideshare.
Many towables in the listings come delivered and set up on the site by their owners, so nobody in the family has to tow. Whether a given trailer does is up to its listing, and the campground booking still comes first.
CMA Fest week from a Music Valley site
Every June, CMA Fest brings a stadium crowd to downtown Nashville and fills stages along the riverfront by day. From a Music Valley site you ride in with everyone else, then come back across the Cumberland to a cold fridge, your own shower, and a bed for every kid, which after four days of crowds is reason enough to bring the RV. CMA Fest lists June 10 to 13 for 2027.
The festival and every other June visitor want the same Music Valley pads and the same rental rigs, and campgrounds fill months ahead. Lock the site first, then book the motorhome to fit it, and plan the festival and the rest of the trip as one booking.
Old Hickory Lake and Cages Bend
Old Hickory Lake wraps the north side of Nashville, and its Corps of Engineers campground at Cages Bend, outside Gallatin, turns the back half of a trip into a lake week. Pads are gravel, close to a boat ramp and a fishing dock, and bass and catfish boats are already out at first light while the coffee's still going.
Every site at Cages Bend has water and electric hookups, and the campground takes reservations only, with no walk-ins. It's open seasonally, and downtown is a bit over thirty minutes by road, so a night at the Opry still works from the lake.
Percy Priest Lake and the Double Arch Bridge on the northern Natchez Trace make better trips for two people in something smaller, and the Nashville campervan page covers both. The Smokies are a long leg east on I-40 with the ridges climbing ahead, and the Pigeon Forge hookup parks for that week are on the Douglas Lake RV page. The rest of the state's RV trips are on the Tennessee RV page.
