Healthwave Hits Murfreesboro
The Greenway Bridge
Nashville is home to a growing culture of health and fitness. This culture is beginning to overflow into Murfreesboro, which offers new health-conscious restaurants and activity centers, as well as parks and hiking trails.
Restaurants
Many new Murfreesboro restaurants offer healthy options. Here are a few:
- Core Life: A trendy salad bar that offers broths as well.
- Zoe’s: Chic shop that specializes in clean eating.
- Pita Pit: Small shop that offers a variety of wraps.
- Juice Bar: Offers both vegetable and fruits juices, as well as small portions of food.
- The Curious Kitchen: Organic food, a sit-down restaurant that also offers cooking classes.
- Vibe Nutrition Herbalife Smoothies & Teas: Casual shop that specializes in protein shakes and energy teas.
Healthy Restaurants in Murfreesboro
Core Life
2330 Medical Center Pkwy suite E, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
A trendy salad bar that offers broths as well.
Zoe's
2222 Medical Center Pkwy Suite F, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Chic shop that specializes in clean eating.
Pita Pit
2355 Adwell St, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
2943 S Rutherford Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN 37130
Juice Bar
804 N Thompson Ln #1j, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Offers both vegetable and fruits juices, as well as small portions of food.
The Curious Kitchen
1602 W Northfield Blvd #2, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Organic food, a sit-down restaurant that also offers cooking classes.
Vibe Nutrition Herbalife Smoothies & Teas
208 W Main St, Murfreesboro, TN 37130
Casual shop that specializes in protein shakes and energy teas.
Activity/fitness centers
Murfreesboro has become a hot spot for out-of-the-ordinary gyms that offer more than the usual workout experience.
- Climb Murfreesboro: An indoor rock-climbing center that offers a kid zone, harness and boulder climbing, a work out room, and locker rooms.
- Gold’s Gym: A chain of gyms that have a variety of machines, and some locations offer tanning, a sauna and classes.
- Anytime Fitness: A new gym that has top of the line equipment and shower rooms.
- Murfreesboro Athletic Club: Large gym that has different rooms, such as multiple cardio centers and a basketball court.
- The Ascent: Rock climbing warehouse that has various climbing classes available.
- Garage Barre: Casual, open minded gym that specializes in barre exercise.
- Jumpstreet: Kid-centric entertainment center with trampolines and blow-up gyms.
Parks
Parks are an important part of the culture of Murfreesboro and bring the community together. They have become popular places for people to meet and exercise.
- Old Fort Park: A park with walking trails, tennis courts, bathrooms, a playground, and indoor tennis courts. Hosts the annual Greenway Art Festival.
- Barfield Crescent Park: A scenic, large park that has trails, fields, bathrooms, playgrounds, a nature station, golf course, and frisbee golf course.
- Greenway: A paved popular trail that weaves along the Stones River and a large part of Murfreesboro and even stretches to other cities. It is a part of many trailheads, playgrounds, bathrooms and a dog park.
- Stones River Battlefield: Historical, scenic trail that tours important local areas of Civil War battles. Has a small information center.
- Gateway Island: Small, new park with walking trails, bathrooms, and a man-made lake with ducks and geese.