Where to stay

The race-week geography

The thing runners get wrong here is assuming start and finish are the same place. They are not. The marathon and half start at 8th & Broadway, right beside the Music City Center, while every distance finishes across the river at Nissan Stadium (source: the race's Parking & Transportation page). The two are close by marathon standards, roughly a mile apart on opposite banks of the Cumberland, but you still want a bed that solves both ends, not one. The good news is that a downtown room does exactly that: walk five minutes downhill to the corral, and after the finish walk back over the river instead of hunting a car. The second mistake is booking on the wrong side of the closures. Roads across the course are shut on race morning (the official Traffic Impact page gives a 5:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. window; a local traffic guide for a prior edition gave 5:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. -- both readings appear in print), and vehicles left on the route are ticketed and towed. If your hotel is outside the loop and your plan involves driving in at 5:30 a.m., you have no plan. Note also that the race's own site currently mixes calendars, showing an April 25-26, 2026 weekend in some places and April 24-25, 2027 on the traffic and accommodations pages, so verify dates against your registration rather than the marketing copy.

Hotels, by walk to the start

Distances are measured from the modeled course endpoints.

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The morning connection

Assume your car is useless on Saturday morning and build from there. The official Traffic Impact page says most closures and detours run 5:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with streets reopening progressively behind the field; a prior-year local traffic guide put the same window at 5:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., so the two published readings differ and you should plan for the longer one. On-street parking along the route is signed No Parking, and the race and police are unambiguous that vehicles there are ticketed and towed at the owner's expense -- a Metro Nashville PD post circulated stating towing begins at midnight the night before, which is early enough to catch anyone who parks after dinner and goes to bed. If you must drive in, the race names two garages off the course near the start, the Courthouse Parking Garage at 701 James Robertson Pkwy and the TA Lot at 151 N. 1st St, both at a $15 day rate with the TA Lot reservable online, and points at SpotHero for reserved spots near the expo, start and finish. Do not count on Nissan Stadium parking; a recent edition had none due to construction. WeGo local buses run on detour that morning, so a normal route lookup will lie to you.