Directions to Cheekwood from Vanderbilt

The directions below should get you to Cheekwood and the Retreat!
Go SOUTH on West End Avenue (away from Downtown) for about 5 MILES. Turn LEFT at a stop light onto Belle Meade Avenue. After approximately 2 MILES, Belle Meade Avenue dead-ends at a park/golf course and stop sign at Page Drive. Turn RIGHT onto Page Drive. Less than 1 mile after this, turn LEFT onto Forrest Park Drive and follow this to the Main Gate House of Cheekwood Botanical Gardens. For map, click HERE.

Tell the Gate Keeper you are there for the Vanderbilt Neuroscience program in Botanic Hall. You will enter for FREE and will be told where you can park. Botanic Hall will be on your left, after The Pineapple Room building.

For additional information, email mary.early-zald@vanderbilt.edu.

Assistant Director for Education, Vanderbilt Brain Institute,
U-1205 Medical Center North, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-2505, tel: (615) 936-2610

Vanderbilt Brain Institute Main Line, (615) 936-3736