The Area
Forest Hills is an incorporated satellite city in Davidson County, one of several that kept independent government after the 1963 city-county consolidation. It covers about 9.3 square miles of steep wooded hills between Belle Meade, Green Hills and the Williamson County line. It is almost entirely residential — roughly 96.6% of its land is zoned so.
Forest Hills is a luxury market almost end to end — the median sale across the whole area was $2,025,000, from 127 closings spanning $250,000 to $7,550,000. Ten of those closed inside Forest Hills proper above $2M, at a $2,700,000 median, with the top sale above $6M. Homes move quickly at a median 15 days to contract.
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The stock is a mix of contemporary Colonial, Georgian and modern houses, with older ranches still scattered through the hills. Homes are set well back on heavily wooded, sloping acreage rather than in dense subdivisions.
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Just over 1,400 acres around an 85-acre lake, Radnor was Tennessee's first designated State Natural Area. Its 7.75 miles of trail are reserved for walking and wildlife observation — jogging is prohibited throughout, and bicycles are confined to the Otter Creek Road Trail. Open from six in the morning until twenty minutes after sunset.
Percy and Edwin Warner together span more than 3,100 acres of forest and field about nine miles from downtown, opened in 1927 on land given by the Warner family. There are over sixty miles of trail, twenty-plus miles of paved scenic roadway, two equestrian trails and a nature center. The main entrance sits at the end of Belle Meade Boulevard beneath a monumental limestone stair, and the steeplechase course has run the Iroquois each May since 1941.
A 55-acre estate built on the Maxwell House coffee fortune, its limestone mansion designed by Bryant Fleming and finished in 1932; the family opened it as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960. Visitors tour the house and its American art collections, walk formal and woodland gardens, and follow a sculpture trail set with ten works through the grounds.
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A Nashville institution on Harding Pike, open since 1974 when the Thomas brothers built it on the site of a former garden centre; it turned fifty in 2024 and is still family run. The dining room has been deliberately left unchanged — dark stained glass, dark wood, an English tavern feel — and it remains a special-occasion steak and seafood room. It served the city's first salad bar, and is known for crab cakes, prime rib and twice-baked potatoes.
The original ran twenty years before closing in 2008; it was revived in 2015 and now operates on Richard Jones Road. California-revival casual dining — a 175-seat room, a forty-seat patio and a full bar — serving lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.
A modern Mediterranean room on Hillsboro Pike, locally owned, open Monday to Saturday with happy hour from four. Everything is made from scratch — house-made pasta, Middle Eastern spiced lamb, fresh oysters and rotating flatbreads — in a warm dining room with a sunny patio and free parking.
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Organised in October 1920 and opened to members in May 1921, Richland first played a Donald Ross design before relocating; the current eighteen-hole Jack Nicklaus course opened in 1988. It remains private and member-owned. A century of additions takes in tennis, a pool, a fitness centre and several dining rooms.
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