This Luxury Resort Outside Nashville Is Drawing Well-Heeled City Slickers to a Working Farm

In the last two years, downtown Nashville’s decade-long hotel boom veered toward luxury with brands such as the Four Seasons, 1 Hotel, SoHo House and Conrad hanging their shingles in the city. Suddenly, Nashville wasn’t just catering to conventions, the honky tonk curious, and hoards of bachelorette parties, filling the night air with “woos.” The big spenders were in town. But there was one thing that was still conspicuously missing in Music City and the nearby area: a relaxing, farm-centric resort.

In December, Southall Farm & Inn changed that. A 325-acre resort in Franklin, a wealthy suburb just over 30 minutes southwest of the state’s capital building. The luxury farm resort was one of the first for Middle Tennessee, beckoning visitors to trade in sleepless and debaucherous nights on Broadway for a more holistic and gentile style of southern living.

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Rooted in nature and well-being, Southall mixes classic lavish amenities—such as ensuite gas fireplaces, deep soaking tubs, and two gourmet restaurants—with a more contemporary eco-conscious raison d’être. Its mission, “Where the land connects us all,” says it all.

What that looks like on a material level is 16 standalone cottages (rooms starts at $839 per night) separated by wide open spaces, a 62-room inn, and the liberal use of foraged herbs and botanicals in treatments at the 15,000-square-foot spa. Local design shop 906 Studio Architects are responsible for the contemporary farmhouse exterior, while the interiors were dreamt up by Los Angeles firm Indidesign.