Murals, Landmarks and a Distillery in One Open-Air Cart Ride
Joyride runs three of its Nashville tours back to back as one three-hour booking, so the sightseeing hour, the mural hour and the drink stop all come with the same guide. The order can be reshuffled on the day.
Nashville spreads its good parts out. The landmarks sit downtown, the most photographed murals are a few blocks off it in The Gulch, and the distilleries are west of the interstate in old warehouse blocks. Booking three tours would cover that ground. This covers it once, in three hours, on an open-air cart.
Joyride sells the same three hours on its own site as the Manager's Special, and describes the format as roughly one hour each for sightseeing, murals and breweries or distilleries. The company also says the guide can customize the route on the day around what the group wants to see. This tour holds 4.86 from 664 reviews.
Nine departures a day, seven days a week, from nine in the morning through five in the afternoon. Every one of them starts at the Joyride office at 833 9th Avenue South. The booking form needs two adults on it, so a single traveler cannot put this in a cart alone.
Nashville Combo Tour: Sightseeing, Murals & Brewery/DistilleryThree fixed hours with a guide on an open-air cart: an hour of downtown sightseeing, an hour of mural photo stops, and an hour at a brewery or distillery. Nine departure times daily from 833 9th Avenue South. Alcoholic drinks and gratuity are not included.www.viator.comWhich Walls the Mural Hour Aims For
The mural hour is the photo hour, and Joyride names two walls for it: "I Believe in Nashville" and "What Lifts You." The word its page uses is including, so the list stays open.
Both are easy to recognize when you get there. The wings wall carries its own credit painted beside it, reading #WhatLiftsYou, #NashvilleGulch and @KelseyMontagueArt. "I Believe in Nashville" is a painted Tennessee tri-star flag with the city's name block-lettered underneath and DCXV signed in the corner.
The cart earns its keep on this hour. Joyride's pitch for the format is that the open-air carts keep you close to the action and leave room for spontaneous photo stops.
The Drinks Happen Off the Cart
Joyride's FAQ answers the obvious question before you ask it. Can you drink on the golf carts? No. The reason it gives is that "a city ordinance prohibits alcohol on any non-enclosed vehicle." Non-alcoholic drinks are fine. So the tasting happens inside the stop, and nothing open rides back out with you.
Which stop you get is not fixed. Joyride's page for this tour names Tennessee Brew Works and Nelson's Green Brier Distillery as places a guide might take you. The Viator itinerary attached to this booking lists two others, Corsair Distillery and Tennessee Legend Distillery, at twenty minutes each. Either way it is one or two places, and the pours are bought at the bar. Samples and drinks are optional and purchased directly at each stop, in the company's words.
Book eleven o'clock or later if the drink stop is your reason for going. Joyride says that on the nine and ten o'clock departures some breweries may not be open yet, and that the guide then swaps in local bars away from Broadway or hands the time back to sightseeing and murals.
Six Stops Account for Eighty-Five Minutes
Most of the three hours is spent moving. Adding up the timed stops in the Viator itinerary gives eighty-five minutes on the ground across six places: ten minutes at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, ten in the downtown core, twenty at each of the two distilleries, ten at the Tennessee State Capitol, and fifteen at Antique Archaeology, which the itinerary calls the Nashville home of the television show American Pickers.
Five more places are listed as drive-bys. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Ryman Auditorium, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and the Broadway honky tonks around it, Losers Bar and Grill, and a line-dancing spot the itinerary describes without naming. You see those from the cart. You do not go inside.
The rest is the ride between them, which is most of what you are buying.
Who Can Ride, and Who Rides With You
Two of the rules come from the city, and Joyride enforces them. Children four and under are not permitted on the carts. Children aged five to eight have to be in a booster or car seat, and Joyride says it can supply a booster on request. Everyone belts in, which the FAQ puts down to state law.
The cart is smaller than the booking form suggests. One style of cart carries five passengers and the other carries seven, with larger groups split across several carts. The Viator form accepts up to fifteen travelers on one booking. That fifteen is the booking limit, and the bench you sit on holds five or seven.
- Two adults minimum on a booking. One adult alone cannot book it.
- Parties of two may be paired with other guests, in Joyride's words, unless you take the VIP option, which it says guarantees a private ride.
- Pets ride on VIP tours only. Service animals are allowed.
- The listing rates the physical demand as suitable for all fitness levels.
Everything leaves from the Joyride office at 833 9th Avenue South. On Apple Maps, the address that works is 833 Hawkins Street. The FAQ says so in as many words. Parking along 9th Avenue South and Hawkins Street is free.
Your guide makes contact the day before, between four and nine in the evening, to confirm the meeting spot. That message goes to a US mobile number, so put down one that will still work while you are in town.
The carts run rain or shine, hot or cold, and the listing asks you to dress for the weather. Cancel twenty-four hours out or earlier for a full refund, and inside that window nothing comes back. If Joyride is the one calling it off for weather, the refund is full.
📍 833 9th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
The last cart rolls at five and puts you back on 9th Avenue around eight, early enough to walk into the Broadway evening yourself.