Places · Park
Garrison Creek
The Natchez Trace Parkway's rest stop and trailhead about a mile south of the Highway 46 exit to the village, named for an Army post of 1801. Restrooms, water, picnic tables and room for horse trailers, and the start of the Highland Rim section of the Natchez Trace Trail.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Park, Natchez Trace trailhead
- Town
- Leiper's Fork, Williamson County
- Website
- nps.gov
- What it costs
- Free.
- Parking
- Cars, buses and RVs in the main lot; horse trailers at its north end.
- What is there
- Restrooms with accessible flush toilets, drinking water, picnic tables, a pavilion, hitching posts and an information board.
- The northern end of the Highland Rim section of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail, which runs about 20 miles south to the Shady Grove trailhead on Highway 50. No bikes and no camping on the trail.
- Riders unload here: horses are not allowed on the parkway itself, only on the trail, and need a current Coggins test.
- A walk of about 1.3 miles on the old Trace from the War of 1812 memorial at milepost 426.3.
- Neighborhood guide
- Leiper's Fork: where to live, what it costs, the trade-offs
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Nearby
Also in Leiper's Fork.
Leiper's Fork Market.
The village's one gas pump and its only grocery: a Shell station a mile west of Fox & Locke with a grill, cold beer and basic groceries, and local history on the walls. The Trace's Highway 46 exit is a mile away.
Green's Grocery.
A country store at the west end of the village that Aubrey Preston bought in 1995 and kept as a music room for invited audiences and benefit shows; John Hiatt, Michael McDonald and Larry Carlton have played it. It keeps no public hours.
Bubble Joy.
Kettle fudge, candy by the quarter pound and a bar of craft sodas with popping boba, plus mocktails and a taffy bar, at the Shops at Leiper's Corner. The owners, Jason and deMarco, doubled the shop in 2026.
Crown Winery Leiper's Fork.
The Humboldt winery's tasting room on Leiper's Creek, which opened in May 2021 as Wines in the Fork in a former music-memorabilia shop. Wine by the flight, glass or bottle, slushies and cider, and seats in the creek itself.
David Arms Gallery.
The painter David Arms's own gallery, which he calls the Studio in Leiper's Fork: his originals, and notecards, glassware and books made from his work. In 2024 he moved here from the barn a few doors away where he had opened in 2011, into a building he designed, with back windows over Leiper's Creek.
Dwell and Den.
A woodland-themed shop in the old barn beside the Copper Fox Gallery: books on foraging and cooking, honey, skin care, vintage art prints and children's sweaters.
Erica Birch Home.
Art, fabric by the yard, furniture, lamps, antiques and gifts, from a design shop a wife and husband run, with Gilyn McKelligon leading the design. It seems to have opened late in 2025; no opening was announced.
Fox & Locke.
The store Jack Fox and Martin Locke opened in 1947 and moved into this building in 1955, Puckett's Grocery from 1960 to 2022, and since then a meat-and-three, grill and music room under its founders' names again. Bands play Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, and the Thursday open mic draws songwriters out from Nashville.