The Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville is in the midst of a significant expansion that will further scale one of the city’s best-known hospitality and entertainment properties. The resort currently offers 2,888 guest rooms and an extensive collection of on-site amenities, including 20 restaurants and nine acres of indoor atriums featuring dense plantings, walking paths and waterfalls, as well as flatboat rides that operate within the hotel. Additional amenities include both indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a full-service spa, positioning the property as a large, self-contained destination for leisure and group travelers.
Ryman Hospitality has reached a key milestone by topping off its latest expansion phase, a project budgeted at $131 million. This phase focuses on enhancing the resort’s meetings and events capabilities with the addition of 108,000 square feet of new meeting space. Within that program, plans call for a 31,000-square-foot ballroom, 38,000 square feet of breakout space and 39,000 square feet of pre-function space, designed to support large conventions as well as smaller group meetings.
The expansion work is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2027. That delivery timeline coincides with the 50th anniversary of Opryland, aligning the new meeting facilities with a major milestone for the resort. Upon completion, the expanded meeting footprint is expected to further reinforce the property’s role as a major venue for conferences and conventions in the region, complementing its established hospitality and entertainment offerings.
The current expansion is one component of a broader $224 million capital improvement plan underway at the Opryland campus. As part of that wider initiative, the resort has already completed a $53 million renovation of its existing meeting space, refreshing facilities that support its group and convention business. The plan also includes the $40 million transformation of the Magnolia Pool Courtyard, which has been repositioned as an activated social and entertainment area within the property’s grounds.
The Magnolia Pool Courtyard project introduces Foundry Fieldhouse Sports Bar & Taproom, a 550-seat sports bar integrated into the redesigned courtyard. This venue adds another food-and-beverage option to the resort’s 20-restaurant lineup and is intended to leverage the property’s large guest-room base and convention traffic. Taken together, the meeting space expansion, renovated facilities and upgraded courtyard underscore the ongoing investment being made into the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center as it approaches its 50th year of operation.
