The hotel is in business as such, and also contains the Strolling Jim Restaurant, named for the original owner's World Grand Championship-winning show horse.

[5][6] Since 2015, the Tennessee Walking Horse National Museum has had a framed portrait of Strolling Jim on display.

It was closed several years later, renovated again by current owner Joe Peters, and reopened in 2007 with the Walking Horse name.

[8] The hotel was renovated in 2007, and now includes the Chais Music Lounge, named for the owner's late wife, and the Strolling Jim Restaurant, which serves three meals a day.

Every fall from late September to Halloween, the Walking Horse Hotel is open to the public as a haunted attraction.