A large, white multi-deck riverboat with red trim and patriotic bunting is docked along a paved walkway. The ship features ornate Victorian-style railings, multiple levels of balconies, and a black hull resting in green-tinted river water under a cloudy sky.

American Cruise Lines

Tennessee Rivers Cruise

US Rivers

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Your Ship

American Splendor

Delivered in 2016 as America, and still the largest paddlewheeler in the fleet

Aboard

  • Handed over by Chesapeake Shipbuilding on March 6, 2016 under the name America
  • 296 feet overall and 180 guests, the largest of the four paddlewheelers
  • Refitted and renamed in 2022, along with two of her stablemates
  • Runs the Lower Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans, and the Tennessee from Chattanooga to Nashville
  • US-built, US-flagged and American-crewed, which is what makes those rivers legal

US Rivers

America's Rivers

The Mississippi, the Columbia and the Snake aboard small ships that dock in the middle of town: no passport, no flight over an ocean, and a different American city every morning.

Best Time to Go
April to November, with fall color on the Mississippi in October
Typical Length
7 to 15 nights
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Scenic view of Nashville skyline and pedestrian bridge reflecting in the Cumberland River at sunrise.
Nashville, Tennessee

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