Brown County Inn, Nashville, Indiana

We recently returned from a vacation to Nashville, Indiana. It is our favorite spot in the state. We usually go there 5-6 times a year. We've always stayed in the Brown County Inn.

The Brown County Inn is an older, rustic hotel. The grounds are well-maintained. The inn is about a block from downtown Nashville, an artist's colony. Nashville has several hundred little shops, many containing artwork from local artists.

There are several good restaurants in town, but we often end up eating at the hotel. They have decent food, although it is a little pricey. Sunday morning they have an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet that is usually pretty good.

The inn is close enough to town that you could walk, or you can catch the 'train' (really a bus) to town.

They have a big indoor pool that we love. There is also a small game room. They have one of those games where you use a claw to pick up toys. We are crazy nuts about it. This is the only place we play it. We have hundreds of toys from it. This year we will bag them all up and donate them to local kids for the holidays.

Besides the pool and arcade they have shuffleboard, horseshoes, miniature golf and a playground.

The 9-hole putt-putt course is a favorite of ours. It is nothing fancy, but several of the holes are very challenging. It doesn't hurt that the bar/lounge is nearby. Drinks are allowed outside in plastic cups.

There are 99 rooms at the inn. They could use a little updating, but only if they were to keep the rustic feel. They do have free wireless internet access in most areas.

We've been pondering staying elsewhere, like maybe renting a cabin in the woods, but we always end up at the Brown County Inn. The pool, the restaurant, the location and the games just keep bringing us back.

Brown County Inn
51 St. Rd. 46 E.
Nashville, IN 47448
1-800-772-5249

Ben and Ari's Miniature Golf

We got up early last Saturday and ventured over to Ben and Ari's, a nearby arcade and putt-putt course. We have always enjoyed playing miniature golf at the Brown County Inn in Nashville, Indiana, so we thought we'd try out the fancy course at Ben and Ari's.

They have two 18-hole courses. The blue is the easiest, and the red is the hardest. We started with the blue.


As you can tell, the courses are pretty nicely landscaped and there are lots of hazards. Also, they use landscaping stones as borders, so it's difficult to get a good ricochet shot.

They did water overnight, so some greens were wet and one hole was actually under water, and one or two fountains weren't on yet. They had just opened up for the day, but none of these things really interfered with us having a good time, so we just played around them.


Nets are provided in case you need to fish your ball out of the water. Here's Anita doing just that.



The dreaded 16th hole on the red course. I put the ball into the water twice.

We'll be back, that's for sure. For $5 each we had 1 1/2 hours of entertainment. Normally, it's $5 per course, but they gave us a discount.

Of course, on the way out, I stopped and played my all-time favorite arcade game, Galaga.