State of Tennessee
Department of Tourist Development
Welcome Center
6111 Lake Spring Road
Portland, TN 37148
(615) 325-4721 (Voice)
Fax: (615) 741-1532
Manager: Patsy HornBerger
Note: the above address is
for mail only. Passenger cars cannot enter the Welcome Center from Lake
Spring Road. (There is a locked gate that only service vehicles can use.)
To reach the Center, passenger cars must go to Franklin, Kentucky, and enter
I-65 southbound at exit 2.
The State of Tennessee, Department of Tourist Development, operates an
official Welcome Center just inside the Tennessee state line. Visitors
traveling south on I-65 can pull off into the welcome center where they will
find rest rooms, vending machines, maps and tourist information.
