Brown County State Park is Indiana's largest state park — 15,000+ acres of steep hardwood-forested hills, the highest overlooks in the state, camping, and horse trails that draw hikers, riders and fall-color drivers from across the Midwest. Van Buren Street in downtown Nashville is a walkable stretch of independent galleries, craft shops, wine tasting rooms and cafes that anchors the art-village identity.
The Brown County Music Hall on Van Buren books country, bluegrass and Americana all summer, and the T.C. Steele State Historic Site just west of town preserves the impressionist painter's Hoosier home and studio on the House of the Singing Winds grounds. The Brown County Historical Society & Pioneer Village is a compact open-air museum of relocated 19th-century log cabins.
Yellowwood State Forest west of town adds another 23,326 acres of backcountry hiking, lake fishing at Yellowwood Lake and quiet forestry roads. The Brown County Art Gallery on Van Buren has anchored the town's gallery scene since 1926, and the Nashville Express Trolley runs a narrated town tour for first-time visitors.
There is more within easy reach — Story Inn's historic-restaurant dinner about 20 minutes south, Bloomington's IU campus 20 minutes west, and Columbus's mid-century architecture 30 minutes east. Spring greens up the state-park hills, summer brings the Music Hall concert season, fall is peak color (mid-October is the marquee weekend), and winter drops rates at the Robinwood cabins and Cornerstone suites for a private-hot-tub getaway. Seasonal highlights include Brown County Fall Foliage season (peak mid-October), Nashville Village of Lights (November–December), Brown County Music Hall summer concert series (June–August).