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Thrilling Adventures in The Tennessee Smoky Mountains
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Check out these great thrilling adventures in The Tennessee Smoky Mountains!
Outbreak - Dread the Undead
Shriek your way through this zombie attraction! When you enter the Chemacorp Laboratory, a closed-circuit broadcast informs you of a military experiment that has gone terribly wrong and turned all of the technicians and test subjects into aggressive zombies.
Fast Tracks
Spend an hour, an afternoon or an entire day racing go-karts, jumping off a 75' tower, challenging your skills at carnival games, and watching the little ones giggle with joy on several rides just for them.
Blake Jones Racing Center
Blake Jones Racing Center features one of the few covered Figure 8 Slick Tracks in the area and the only indoor Electric Go-Karts and Spin Zone Bumper Cars. Rain or Shine it’s always Racing Time at Blake Jones Racing Center for all ages.
Adventure Raceway
Adventure Raceway features a Wooden Elevated Go-Cart Track, that takes you up a three story spiral to "The Hump" and then down the other side through a spiral for you to come around and do it all over again.
Dollywood's Splash Country
Dollywood's Splash Country is the perfect mountain oasis for families to cool down and chill out this summer. Located adjacent to Dollywood theme park, Dollywood's Splash Country features a variety of water attractions for both the thrill-seekers and pool-loungers in your family.
Dollywood
Dollywood offers you the chance to immerse yourself in the natural beauty of the Smoky Mountains and the incredible spirit of its people, all at a place fun for all ages. Taste award-winning recipes, experience heart-pounding thrills and witness incredible performances.
Castle of Chaos
Our haunted house is well known for making every visitor shriek in terror, whether they’re a nervous newbie or a fear fanatic. We thrill and entertain a broad audience by offering four different levels of fear to choose from.
Bluff Mountain Adventures
Bluff Mountain Adventures offers guided ATV trail rides on 6,000 acres of Smoky Mountain trails that explore the foothills of East Tennessee. In your one or one and half hour tour you’ll cross streams, climb the mountain, cover some rugged terrain and experience spectacular views!
Earthquake The Ride
Subway train No. 13 is ready for departure. Get on board for a heart-pounding, catastrophic, live action ride loaded with gut-wrenching high-tech special effects. Experience sensory overload through sights, sounds, motion, and live action destruction.
Gatlinburg's Mysterious Mansion
We invite you to join us in a terrifying excursion to explore this classic “turn of the century” haunted mansion. Let your fears awaken and discover the startling secrets of this dreadfully daunting domain. If you dare to step inside this once grand abode you shall take an unguided tour finding your way through secret passageways, eerie dark corridors, winding staircases and spine chilling chambers that will curdle the blood of even the bravest of souls! But BEWARE! You never know what restless, rotting residents might be lurking around the corner in each foreboding room ahead! …or BEHIND YOU! Join us and Release Your Screams in Gatlinburg’s original haunted house! IF YOU DARE!
The Captured: A Live Escape Experience
The captured is an interactive live escape game (a game in which people are locked in a room with other participants and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles, find clues, and escape) located at the base of the Gatlinburg Space Needle. You have just unwittingly entered into the Craft holding cellar…in other words…you’ve been captured. Sebastian Craft has locked you and your group in his cellar. You will have 60 minutes to escape by finding clues, solving riddles, and completing puzzles. You will have to use your intellect, skill, and every bit of courage to escape becoming dinner.
Zip Gatlinburg
Experience nine zipline treetop canopy tours and the 14 Element self guided Tree Trek! A Family Adventure everyone can experience.
Gatlin's Rugged Ropes Adventure Course
Come take towards the sky on our brand-new high ropes adventure course! Gatlin’s Rugged Ropes Adventure Course is the first of its kind in Gatlinburg. Adventurers, while safely harnessed in an overhead track, will be able to climb three stories in the air to face thirty-eight challenges including rickety bridges, suspended ropes and other balancing obstacles.
Rafting in The Smokies
While you are in town, you’ll want to get as close to nature as you can, and there’s no better adventure than to raft the Pigeon River. We offer outdoor fun for all ages: a thrilling whitewater trip (age 8+) and a family friendly float trip (age 3+).
Appalachian Ghost Walks
Do the spirits of early pioneers still frequent old frontier trails? What former actress still haunts a popular overnight stay? Learn about the lost, but not forgotten graves of original native people. Which well-known attraction of the town is still haunted by the spirits of several early settlers? You and your family, or friends will be amazed by these and other even more intriguing discoveries presented throughout the NEW "Haunted Historic Gatlinburg GhostWalk" - a true Smoky Mountain haunted history and heritage tour!
The Rocky Top Mountain Coaster
The Rocky Top Mountain Coaster is the longest coaster in east Tennessee and the first one in the world with FOUR uplifts! The ride features beautiful Smoky Mountains scenery, 360 degree turns, and several tunnels on over 20 acres of property. Each single cart can go up to 30 MPH and the driver controls the speed on this over 9 minute long ride! Our coaster is fun for all ages, with riders ranging from three years of age to ninety!
Legacy Mountain Zipline
Legacy Mountain Ziplines is a zipline complex located only minutes from Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Our high-flying adventure is a family-favorite destination for anyone from three years of age and older, up to 275 lbs. You will love the feeling of flying through the air at speeds up to 50 mph on 4.5 miles of lines up to 500 feet high.
Foxfire Mountain
Foxfire Mountain is an outdoors adventure park. We have zip lines, miles of hiking trails, outdoor adventures, ATV rides and camping! We have package tours for everyone from beginners to seasoned pros, from kids to adults, and families as well as groups. We offer fun-filled activities for all.
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