Memphis

Worth seeing in and around Memphis

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   FedExForum

   Multi-purpose arena in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Blues Hall of Fame

   Award by Blues Foundation, since 2015 also a music museum in Memphis, Tennessee

   1.8 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Pyramid Arena

   Arena in Tennessee, United States

   700 m · Wikipedia
4. 04
   National Civil Rights Museum

   Hotel that was site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., now a museum

   1.8 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Diocese of Memphis

   Diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States

   7.9 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Hernando de Soto Bridge

   Steel-arch bridge in the United States

   1.4 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   AutoZone Park

   Baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

   700 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium

   Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

   7.2 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Mid-South Coliseum

   Arena in Tennessee, United States

   7.1 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    University of Tennessee Health Science Center

    Health Sciences division of the University of Tennessee

    2 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Memphis

Airports

Frederick W. Smith (MEM), 13 km

Stations

Central Station, 2.1 km · General DeWitt Spain Airport, 5.7 km

• Nashville → Memphis

  316 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · $27–38
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• Birmingham → Memphis

  Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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• St Louis → Memphis

  387 km · quickest by road, 6h 22m · $36–50
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No local-transport research exists yet for Memphis

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Memphis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Memphis – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.