- 49.5 miles
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- 8.1 mph average speed
- 2-4 mph winds
It was such a pleasant day of travel on Tennessee River on our way to Cuba Landing! We enjoyed looking at more of the start of the Fall leaf color changes. Once docked, the couple that runs the marina offered to let us take their car to town.
Loretta Lynn had passed away, at the age of 90, at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN the day before we arrived. She was the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female Artist of the Decade (1970’s). She signed her first record deal and released her first single in 1960 and had only stopped touring in 2017. Last year, at the age of 89, she recorded her 50th album, “Still Woman Enough”. Her ranch, where she raised her children and lived with her husband until his death in 1996, was about 15 miles from the marina.
It was late in the day when we got to the sprawling 3,500 acre ranch so we were only able to drive through and take a few pictures of her beautiful and beloved home. In addition to her home, Loretta Lynn’s Ranch also holds a large RV Park, campsites, cabins, hiking tails, a swimming pool, a replica of the home where she was born and raised and a Western Town with museums and shops and an historic Grist Mill. The Ranch is one of Tennessee’s top tourist attractions.
After leaving The Ranch, we had a wonderful home cooked dinner at the Log Cabin Restaurant. The building was originally built as a private home nearly 100 years ago and has been a restaurant since 1966.
