Something magical happens when you step onto the winding trails in Edwin Warner Park. The temperature drops, the humidity fades, and life feels … lighter. There are a lot of great parks in Nashville — the neighboring Percy Warner Park rightfully gets a lot of praise, and Shelby Bottoms is a delightful critter-filled paradise — but there’s something about Edwin Warner’s thick woods, dirt paths and lack of crowds that makes all the city noises and daily stress melt away. There are no CrossFit fanatics grunting loudly while sprinting up and down stairs between sets of one-armed push-ups. There are no cyclists whizzing by. It doesn’t hurt that the forest is so thick throughout that you’re barely touched by even one ray of sunshine the whole time you’re wandering around — making it easy to, at least temporarily, escape summer’s most brutal days.
