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Mud Island, Memphis

Mud Island is a peninsula in Memphis, Tennessee.

Mud Island, Memphis
Mud Island, Memphis · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mud Island is a peninsula in Memphis, Tennessee. It is bordered by the Mississippi River to the west, the Wolf River to the north, and Wolf River Harbor to the east. The peninsula contains Mud Island River Park and the Harbor Town residential neighborhood. The park is managed and operated by the Memphis River Parks Partnership.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mud Island, 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

    FedExForum is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It is the home of the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association and the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of the University of Memphis, both of whom previously played home games at the Memphis Pyramid.

    1.1 km · multi-purpose arena in Memphis, Tennessee, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Blues Hall of Fame

    The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music.

    1.2 km · award by Blues Foundation, since 2015 also a music museum in Memphis, Tennessee · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pyramid Arena

    The Memphis Pyramid, formerly known as the Great American Pyramid and the Pyramid Arena, and colloquially known as the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, is a pyramid-shaped building located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States, at the bank of the Mississippi River. Built in 1991 as a 20,142-seat arena, the facility was owned and operated jointly by the city of Memphis and Shelby County until Shelby County sold its share to Memphis in April 2009.

    1.2 km · arena in Tennessee, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Civil Rights Museum

    The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present. The museum is built around the former Lorraine Motel, the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    1.3 km · hotel that was site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., now a museum · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hernando de Soto Bridge

    The Hernando de Soto Bridge is a tied-arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee. The design is a continuous cantilevered cable-stayed steel through arch, with bedstead endposts.

    900 m · Steel-arch bridge in the United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    AutoZone Park

    AutoZone Park is a Minor League Baseball stadium located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and is home to the Memphis Redbirds of the International League, the Triple-A affiliate of Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals.

    900 m · baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, USA · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    100 North Main

    100 North Main is the tallest building in Memphis, Tennessee. At 430 feet, it has 37 floors and stands bordering Adams Avenue, North Second Street, and North Main.

    700 m · tallest building in Memphis, Tennessee · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Morgan Keegan Tower

    Raymond James Tower is a 21-story skyscraper and is the second tallest building in Memphis, Tennessee. The building is located at the corner of North Front Street and Jefferson Avenue and South Main Street.

    500 m · building in Tennessee, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    University of Tennessee Health Science Center

    The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is a public medical school in Memphis, Tennessee. It includes the Colleges of Health Professions, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.

    2.6 km · Health Sciences division of the University of Tennessee · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sterick Building

    The Sterick Building is a historic Gothic-style skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee, 111 m tall with 31 floors, two of which are below grade. Its name is a portmanteau of the original owners' names, Texas Governor Ross S. Sterling and it's architect Wyatt C. Hedrick.

    700 m · Skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee (USA) · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mud Island, Memphis

Airports
Frederick W. Smith (MEM), 14 km
Stations
Central Station, 1.5 km
  • Nashville → Mud Island, Memphis
    317 km · quickest by road, 5h · $27–38
  • Birmingham → Mud Island, Memphis
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • St Louis → Mud Island, Memphis
    387 km · quickest by road, 6h 28m · $37–50
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mud Island, 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 Mud Island, Memphis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,602 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,839 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,946 km
  4. 04
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,026 km
  5. 05
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    2,062 km

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Around it

Next door to Mud Island, Memphis

  • Beale Streethistoric district in Memphis, Tennessee, United States900 m
  • Fort Prudhommehuman settlement in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America600 m
  • Memphis Fire Servicesagency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Memphis, Tennessee400 m
  • Cotton Row Historic Districthistoric district in Memphis, Georgia600 m
  • Harbor Townhuman settlement in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America2.9 km