This indoor trampoline park features birthday parties, groups events, and open jump times for public enjoyment.
FREE outdoor splash pad in Knoxville.
Eat, drink, play arcade games & watch sports in the Smoky Mountain region!
FREE outdoor splash pad in Knoxville, open spring through fall.
This studio offers a variety of art options including, paint your own pottery, canvas painting, and glass fusion. Projects are available for both children and adults. Birthday parties are available.
This studio offers cheer, gymnastics, tumbling, and ninja classes. TNT Gymnastics also hosts birthday parties, and summer camp.
This kids’ gym offers a whole world of fun for preschool kids, including general gymnastics classes, parent/child classes, music & movement classes, birthday parties, and camps during school breaks for ages 3-12.
Serving children 18 months and up, these awesome yoga classes and camps are offered at a variety of locations around Knoxville. Through yoga, Blooming Youth helps kids learn the basic principles of mindfulness including expression, awareness, and peace. Blooming Youth also offers early childhood education classes for infants through age 8, and baby sign language classes.
This FREE indoor foam play area is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, especially when the weather leads to cabin fever!
This amazing roller skating venue offers general admission skate times and birthday parties.
This FREE indoor foam play area is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, especially when the weather leads to cabin fever!
In this Breakout Escape Room experience, your family will be locked in a room and will have to uncover hidden clues to find your way out. You can choose from different themed rooms that are changed periodically. Team building experiences are also available.
Ijams nature center offers a variety of educational programs and nature-based activities including, hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, animal education and conservation, and nature education and conservation. There is also an amazing ropes course on-site. Field trips and nature-themed birthday parties are also available.
In addition to their year round educational programs, this facility also offers a variety of week-long summer camps with various themes. Camp activities include hiking, swimming, caving, canoeing, arts and crafts, games, songs, educational programs, and much more! The camps serves children ages 5-14 years old.
A fun mirror maze for all ages.
This paint your own pottery studio offers a variety of pottery selections perfect for both kids and adults. In addition to general pottery painting, this facility also offers birthday parties and summer camps.
This fun center has both indoor and outdoor activities to meet all your needs. Activities include laser tag, mini golf, go karts, and an arcade. Birthday parties are available.
Claiming to be the region’s largest indoor aquatic attraction, this water park resort boasts family-friendly accommodations as well as an expansive indoor water park. You do not have to be staying at the resort to enjoy the park. Day and week passes can be purchased separately.
Run by Knoxville Parks & Recs, this art center/studio offers pre-k classes, youth, and adult classes in a variety of media. Birthday parties and summer camp options are also available.
In addition to general admission experiences, this indoor skydiving facility offers birthday parties and group events.
At this live-action gaming facility, your family can choose from different themed rooms that you will have 1 hour to to escape from, after being locked inside. Room themes are changed periodically to keep the game fun. Team building experience are available.
Play games and win prizes!
featuring entertainers, floats, music and food!
- Average breakfast price $4.50
- Average lunch/dinner price $9
This locally owned gem serves up authentic Cuban food for both breakfast and brunch. You are such to find all your Cuban favorites including Cuban sandwiches, plantains, and yuca fries. It doesn’t get better than that!
- Average breakfast price $4.75
- Average sandwich/sub price $7/adults, $3/kids
A favorite for both breakfast and lunch, guests rave about the pancakes, which are thankfully served all day! Head on over to their Facebook page, linked below, to read all of the numerous reviews citing them as, “the best pancakes I’ve ever had.” Now that’s a good pancake!
If you hate pancakes (what?!), the cafe also serves a variety of other American breakfast foods, as well as soups, salads, and yummy baked goods. This small locally owned restaurant also offers really affordable prices.
- No breakfast
- Average lunch/dinner price $12/adults, $5/kids
Located in the Old Mill area, this southern homestead turned restaurant has all the charm you’ve been dreaming of for your country vacation. While here you will dine on handcrafted stoneware, hence the sweet little name. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner including steaks, grilled salmon, fresh local trout, Southern comfort foods, and American favorites. You can also enjoy a variety of scrumptious baked goods and desserts including piping hot bread, made from fresh flour milled on-site.
- No breakfast
- Average lunch price $9/adults, $5/kids
- Average dinner price $16/adults, $5/kids
Although the restaurant specializes in catfish, they also offer chicken, steak, and a variety of of other fresh water and seafood options. All the meals here come with “all ‘u can eat vittles” including homemade coleslaw, baked white beans, choice of french fries or homemade mashed potatoes and gravy, delicious southern hushpuppies, and dill pickles & onions slices.
- Average breakfast prices $7
- Average lunch/dinner price $13/adults, $5/kids
Although this fabulous German restaurant is newer, it is quickly becoming an area favorite. The menu features a mix of authentic German dishes, American fare and what I like to call “Germerican” food, like pretzels with beer cheese. Although the kids menu is small, kids are able to make healthier choices by skipping the fries and opting for fruit or apple sauce instead. They also have a wide variety of German beer on tap.
This all-in-one entertainment stop features amusement rides, mini-golf, go karts, and an arcade. Group rates are available.
Play games and win prizes!
Average dinner/lunch price $12
With it’s rustic theme, JT Hannah’ really has an amazing atmosphere. Here they serve up burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, seafood, salad, and an extensive gluten free menu.
In addition to general admission experiences, this indoor skydiving facility offers birthday parties and group events.
- Average 14 inch pizza price $19.00
- Average price for sandwiches/appetizers $10
This local chain serves up delicious wood fired pizza and has multiple locations throughout the area. In addition to fabulous pizza, they also serve a variety of appetizers, salads, and sandwiches.
FREE 5 day event features guided hikes, field trips, hands-on workshops, children’s activities and more!
This is a weekend-long Christian women’s retreat.
Come celebrate the art and heritage of quilting.
This fast-paced attraction features go karts and an indoor arcade, where you can play games to win prizes.
- Average breakfast price $9
- Average lunch price $9
- No dinner
Sawyers serves up pretty mean burgers and chicken sandwiches for lunch, but breakfast is where they really shine! The offer a wide variety of crepes, pancakes, waffles, in many decadent flavors. Of course, they also serve omelettes, eggs, and the Southern staple, biscuits and gravy. Yum!
This fun center has both indoor and outdoor activities to meet all your needs. Activities include laser tag, mini golf, go karts, and an arcade. Birthday parties are available.
This expansive crime museum features exhibits from a variety of historical and modern crimes. There are also a few interactive portions of the museum, which are geared towards older school aged children and adults.
Parking is at The Island.
- Average breakfast/lunch price $8/adults, $4/kids
Featured in Southern Living Magazine as one of the “South’s Best Flavors,” this small regional chain offers several locations throughout the Smokies. Serving a variety of tasty breakfast items, their claim to fame is, of course, the pancakes. You can even create your stack, choosing from over 10 different toppings!
